Archive for January, 2008
How do you make your build moo?
Boris pointed me to bug 216670 which asks the question, “why would you use images in a wiki to communicate build status?”
I agree, it seems an odd approach, what with the world (well, my world, anyway) hell-bent on searchable & simple text-based messaging. (I say this because increasingly my other half uses her thumbs instead [...]
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HOWTO: Timestamp Your Build
Ever wondered how long an Ant task takes? Or where to look for ways to performance tune your build?
Well, here’s a quick way to add changing timestamps to your Ant script or PDE build log, so you can see how long specific subtasks and antcalls take, or when they occur. This trick gets around [...]
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Mailing List Digestion
Props to Karl for finding & mentioning this. Apologies in advance if this post smacks of “no good deed goes unpunished”, in that the mention of it has yielded this bug.
In addition to the regular mailing list archives at Eclipse.org, there’s now a new way to get your archives, whenever you need to know when [...]
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HOWTO: Component Provisioning
The process for getting from ‘great idea’ to ‘component in an eclipse.org project’ is an evolving one. In its tireless approach to making process simpler, the EMO will now accept (as of Oct 20, per Ecore Tools, Emfatic, and Servus) a wiki doc proposal instead of a zip with HTML files, css & images.
As [...]
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