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Like I have mentioned here before, a few years back I was given the opportunity to work with an incredibly talented group of engineers in St. Petersburg, Russia.
While this was at the end of the dot-com bubble and long after Mr. Gorbachev had torn down that wall, Russia still felt so strangely different than any place else I had lived or visited. Looking back however, it's always the people you met that keep the memory alive, even more so if one manages to stay in touch, may it be just via email or Y!-Messenger.
After Artificial-Life, the Boston, MA headquartered company had imploded, I returned from my adventure working in Russia and re-joined Cardiff Software (recently inquired by Verity, Inc.) Two really smart guys (Kirill Kalishev, Sergey Zhulin) of the Russian team I had led, joined JetBrains, the Prague, Czech Republic based software company, which had just opened an office in St. Petersburg.
These guys have worked hard over the last couple of years and created a best of breed Java development environment. Unfortunately, Eclipse seems to get the entire buzz currently and no trade magazine or Web site for that matter (i.e. JavaLobby.org) wants to endanger its participation in IBM next paid ad campaign and therefore singing along the Eclipse song.
Fortunately, it looks like that JetBrains remains to be unimpressed and continues its great work on Intellij. Check out IntelliJ's Early Access Program if you would like, it currently features the Release Candidate X for IntelliJ 4.5, code named Pallada, which among other features adds support for JDK 1.5.
I would really hate to see the IDE choices being reduced to Eclipse and NetBeans.
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