When I started thinking about writing my first plugin for IntelliJ IDEA the biggest problem was lack of good and comprehensive guides how to do it and how to do it well gathered in one place. So this post will be a written collection of my personal experiences, links and other resources I found useful and noteworthy in my road to releasing Share with Pastie plugin to public IntelliJ repository.
Links
Before starting writing your mind-blowing and super-extra-useful plugin you should first do some reading. Below there is a list of places worth visiting:
Getting Started - a place where you should start. The most basic introduction to creating new plugins.
Basics of plugin development – second page similar to previous one but some interesting knowledge can be found there.
It is more stable than Eclipse and it has many well supported extensions which are working out of the box without any, really ANY issues.
