Blog post EARLY draft

Author: FylmTM

blog/2017-01-26-introduction.md

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+# JetBrains IDE plugin - Graph Database support 
+
+## About the author
+
+* Name: Dmitry Vrublevsky
+* Title: Lead Software Engineer
+* Company: Neueda
+
+> TODO: What Information I need here?
+
+## Introduction
+
+The story of a plugin starts a bit more than a year ago.
+
+I have started to work with Neo4j daily and writing Cypher queries started to become a routine.
+
+What tools I had to help myself? Not much:
+* Neo4j Browser
+* [Cypher for VIM](https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/cypher-vim-syntax)
+* [Cypher for Sublime](https://github.com/kollhof/sublime-cypher)
+
+While Neo4j Browser is quite awesome and helps a *lot* I found myself struggling with it.
+
+Being Java developer for quite some time, I started to become lazy.
+By being "lazy" I mean that I want my tools to help me write code.
+
+As someone might guess, I am fan of IntelliJ IDEA.
+It help write Java code effectively by being smart ... blah blah ...
+
+## Overview
+
+First of all, plugin works in **any** IDE by JetBrains.
+It doesn't matter are you Java, PHP, Ruby, Golang or <language of your choice> developer -
+Neo4j can be home for everyone (TODO: Joke is somewhere there).
+
+In the box can be found:
+* Cypher support
+    * Autocompletion
+    * Refactoring
+    * Quick documentation
+    * Auto-injection for popular libraries
+    * Inspections
+* Ability to manage data sources
+    * Neo4j 3.0 and higher is supported
+* Execute queries
+    * View results as a graph, or table
+    * Query parameters are supported too
+    * `EXPLAIN` and `PROFILE` are supported as well
+
+## Features
+
+Let's explore some of the most important features in detail.
+
+### Data sources
+
+Data sources is a heart of a plugin.
+
+Create data source that connects to running Neo4j instance.
+After doing that you will see metadata that is pulled out from a database.
+
+Now you can double-click on data source (or right-click and select appropriate menu option).
+Now you can write queries with all the features that plugin offers:
+* Metadata autocompletion
+* Database-based inspections (warning)
+
+### Query editor
+
+> What I am going to talk about there?
+
+* Green border
+* <ctrl>-<enter> to run query
+
+### Cypher
+
+* Autocompletion
+* Refactoring
+* Documentation
+* Parameters
+* Inspection - warning
+
+### Console
+
+#### Log
+
+> Maybe I don't need to talk about Log at all?
+
+Log contains information about all executed queries and their stats (time, counters).
+Also all errors can be found there
+
+#### Graph
+
+While not best graph visualisation in the world, it still works and delivers.
+
+Features:
+* Click on node 
+
+#### Table
+
+Table is quite simple and boring.
+Nothing much to say.
+
+## Stats
+
+> Do I need this?
+> It shows that we are spying :(
+
+Total downloads: ~14.000
+Active daily users: 400
+
+## In the end
+
+Any feedback is appreciated