Concursive Corporation - Colleagues

Can a corporate web site be a social networking community?

Matt R. — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:05:00 GMT

This is a question that we have internally discussed for years. We decided that the answer was yes, a corporate web site can be a social networking community, and we have been running a web site and community, all-in-one, for about 8 years now. Powering concursive.com is ConcourseConnect 2.0 -- it's a collaboration application, but with the flexibility of a light-weight content management system.

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 9 Preview (quick insights)

Matt R. — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:40:00 GMT

JetBrains recently released a preview version of IntelliJ as Open Source. The marketing page declares IntelliJ as "The Most Intelligent Java IDE — Now Free and Open Source."

I've been a paying customer of IntelliJ IDEA for several years, and with this news I thought, how great! I can continue to use the Enterprise edition on my main computer, and on my second computer use the Community edition for minor edits. You can't run two copies of IntelliJ Enterprise at the same time on the same network, so I have avoided using IntelliJ on two computers and use NetBeans instead.

The Community Edition looks very familiar to those using the Enterprise edition, with a few graphical color changes and some features removed. Most of the removed features are for hardcore refactoring, testing, and developing with integrated web servers... features a useful editor wouldn&ap

Mac OSX Snow Leopard and Java 6 Experience

Matt R. — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:10:00 GMT

After upgrading to the latest Mac OS, things are definitely running well -- the speed is noticeable. IntelliJ and NetBeans are working just fine for me and the latest ConcourseSuite CRM alpha and ConcourseConnect are both running fine too. The default Java is now Java 6.

Perhaps the best "new" feature is that Spaces finally works with IntelliJ and NetBeans! Previously, when either was activated, Spaces would not switch unl

NetBeans 6.7 Experience

Matt R. — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:00:00 GMT

I've been an advocate of IntelliJ for quite some time. In fact, over the years I've converted a few around here and still today I think it works well. The main gripe I have recently is compatibility with Mac OSX -- daily crashes, and with each crash comes a lengthy cache rebuild. On an Apple Java Developers discussion forum another user with the same exception indicated that JetBrains (the owner of IntelliJ) pointed to Apple's latest Java release as the culprit for a windowing exception and that they wouldn't/couldn't do anything about it. I don't expect an update anytime soon so I had to act quickly.

With a newly released NetBeans IDE, and a problematic IntelliJ 8 and 9 beta on