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Why Eclipse Equinox P2 Update Manager is not good enough for me yet
As you all know in Eclipse 3.4 there is a new Update Manager (more correctly - Plug-in Manager) which is intended to be better.
The update managing side of it is an improvement indeed. But the first thing raised my alertness is there is no place to point where do I want my selected plug-ins to [...]
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Working with Eclipse on two displays - Picture
As I mentioned previously, recently I started to work on two monitors. Here comes the picture (sorry for the bad quality):
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Working with Eclipse on two displays
Several days ago I was given an additional monitor, and the question of “how to arrange Eclipse view on two displays” was raised. After several tests I made the conclusion that the best way is to stay with my default preferred arrangement, with single difference - to detach and move all the non-editor views to [...]
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Nice Diagram Editor - yWorks’ yEd
Today I felt need in simple diagram editor in order to draw a comprehensive flow-chart diagram.
Previously I widely used Dia one, but it was always to painful to achieve acceptable with no constant mistakes and overall creation always took too long.
In the past I also several times evaluated Enterprise Architect, Visio and SmartDraw, but they [...]
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Java Code Structure and Dependencies Analysis Tools for Eclipse
One of my first assignments at the new company (remember, I left Zend previous week), was analysing existing projects structure. Which means distribution of classes into packages, package dependencies, libraries usage etc.
The results, I would say, were far from being perfect, but I can bet, most of large (and especially proprietary) projects would look similar or even worse. But this is not what I was going to say.
What I am going to say, is for this purpose I evaluated several analysis tools and I want to share my opinion about them.
Here they are (in order of evaluation).
1. Eclipse Metrics(1) (CPL)
Pros: Runs fast, provides tangle detector.
Cons: Dependencies graph is not usable with large projects. No text output of dependencies is available.
2. Eclipse Metrics(2) (CPL)
Pros: no.
Cons: Does not analyze dependencies.
2. JDepend
Pros: Nice and simple UI, fast analysis.
Cons: Provides neither graph [...]
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Zend Studio for Eclipse Release & cetera
Dear diary,
I have 2 news for you today.
Today we successfully released Zend Studio for Eclipse. My contribution to it, beyond PDT commitments, is Sebastian Bergmann’s PHPUnit testing framework integration plug-in, File Network support, Organize Includes and other parts of Refactoring engine, Code Coverage browser… well, it seems that’s it. Maybe several additional, but minor [...]
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Dependency Injections in Java 5
Recently I’ve discovered a new “framework” which simplifies dependency injections in Java 5. It’s called Guice.
Well, what can I say. It indeed has sence. But what I’m wandering of is you need a framework for this thing. In PHP you can solve the problem in exactly x lines. And certainly don’t perform at lectures to explain the concept.
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PDT Resource Containers Include Paths
Last week I have been working on extending of Include Path Libraries management in PDT and Zend Studio for Eclipse (Neon). The change won’t be released either in PDT 1.0.2 or in Zend Studio for Eclipse GA, but in the next ones (since it changed almost every aspect of products’ functionality).
The change’s idea is very [...]
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Grouped Completion (Content Assist) in PDT
Last Wednesday I was working on grouping of code completion (content assist) options. It’s now only exists in CVS and will be (hopefully) released with the build after the next one (the current is already finalized).
Overview
The main point of the feature is collapsing of multiple same-prefixed options into groups, instead of showing a long list [...]
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Hello Eclipse
I’ve just found the new(?) Eclipse.org’s feature to create blogs and decidet to import here my posts from my blog which are more or less related to what I do with/on Eclipse project.
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