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CheckStyle IDEA 3.0 Release

After a long long wait, I’ve finally bit the bullet and released CheckStyle-IDEA 3.0.
What is it? Integrated real-time and static CheckStyle scanning for IntelliJ IDEA 7 and 8.
What’s new in 3.0?

CheckStyle 5.0 support (thanks to jicken)
Per-module configuration support
Severity filtering on result list.

Please note that you will need to reconfigure the plugin, due to changes in [...]

The Curse of Open Source

One must only browse the vast repositories of half-finished software at SourceForge to see that many promising (or just plain useful) projects seem to just vanish, left incomplete and at the mercy of bit-rot.
The main reasons for this are threefold:

A lot of open-source software is written to scratch an itch. That itch may not be [...]