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JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

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Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

#372
I've really gotten into Sublime after being 100% text-editor for perl, HTML, javascript and PHP for years and years.

Can anyone tell me why I should switch to this IDE?

What am I missing out on? Many of the 'smarts' seem dependent on writing code in a particular way (eg, using PHPdoc) or following their file naming conventions.

I'm eager to try anything that's better. But I'm not getting it.

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

#373
Before I read about the server issues, I was about to say that I found it quite amusing that for a "Doomsday Sale" the receipt email states:

  The publisher of "PRODUCT" has been notified and is
  responsible for delivering this product. JetBrains s.r.o
  will deliver the product within 48 hours.
End of the world, if the planes fall from the sky, electricity goes out and the sun starts to burn us up slowly, I don't care if I can't use it, if they can still get me the products within 48 hours, kudos to them :D

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

#374

I've tried switching to Intellij from Eclipse a few times, but it's just too different and I don't feel like the UI is all that great. This is a great deal but I just don't see the justification to buy Intellij.

I started trying out IntelliJ a month back after having used eclipse for over 8 yrs. in the past my migration was never successful because I never tried to solve the initial hiccups or give myself a fair chance at getting used to IntelliJ.

But I can say, 3 days into giving IntelliJ that fair chance, I cannot even think of going back to eclipse despite our project using a lot of AspectJ where eclipse scores better.

In fact, today almost my entire team has gone out and bought personal licenses based on all that they have been hearing about IntelliJ from me.

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

#377

Earlier quoted context omitted.

3 hours after purchase here, not even an order confirmation email (though I did get the purchase confirmation page and an order number which I've now lost thanks to a browser crash and my inability to find a pen.) I don't have any reason to doubt it'll come, but I'm kicking myself for not waiting until later when everything would have been running smoothly.

Hang tight scrumper, if you got the purchase confirmation page you are all set. An email will follow with delay because of the volume.

Yeah, I can see you're busy and the page did say "12 hours." All good here; even if not I'm sure you'll make me whole again.

Bit cross with myself for not writing down the order ID, but usually an auto-email comes straight after.

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

#379
So, I can't pass up this price. (I've been meaning to try you, and this pushes me over the edge.)

However, your Order Details page, prompting for name, address and other contact info, and payment type (but not account details), is coming across via HTTP rather than HTTPS [1]. I would REALLY prefer that to be HTTPS.

[1] http://www.jetbrains.com/eshop/checkout/displaySummary.do

P.S. I "forced" the Shopping Cart page to HTTPS by editing the address bar. I can then proceed; however, the pages still contain some elements delivered via HTTP.

Upon reaching element5 to process my payment, I find that its data collection page (the first page I reach, and which is asking for my credit card information), is delivered via HTTPS but also has some elements delivered via HTTP -- that is, the HTTPS connection is "broken".

You really should have a look at revising and improving your payment processing.

P.P.S. Ok, on that first element5 page, I chose the link to "Change Payment". The next page I received was fully HTTPS, and selecting the credit card option, I'm back to a page prompting for CC details, but this time it's fully HTTPS.

If anyone wonders why I'm writing this here ("HN isn't a bug tracker"), the OP has identified themselves as being with JetBrains, and I'd really like to see this fixed -- and thanks for the sale price, if I can help their conversion rate a bit by making the purchase flow look a bit less... "troubling".

Re: JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

#380
post #371

I placed my order some 7 hours ago, but I still haven't received a confirmation e-mail. Are the orders being vetted manually? That would be a tough bottleneck to eliminate - humans don't scale like computers. :P

Same here. I got the order number (which, like an idiot, I didn't write down), but I don't have any confirmation of purchase from DR element5. :/

If, in the end, it doesn't go through, I'm OK with that too.

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