Archive for May, 2007
My own Ubuntu Experiment
It seems that I’ve been reading a lot of “Ubuntu Experience” blog entries lately. I decided that, with the arrival of my new laptop, I’d do the same.
I recently acquired a brand spanking new Dell Latitude D820 laptop. It’s quite nice and is seriously loaded. The installation of Ubuntu was painless. I quite like their [...]
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Test First Development Using Eclipse
A few weeks ago, at Eclipse Forum Europe (EFE), I presented a talk titled “Test First Development Using Eclipse”. I’m doing the talk again, only this time in a webinar format. The webinar runs tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11h00 EDT (15h00 GMT). Register now!
I’m not planning on changing any of the materials I presented at EFE, [...]
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New Eclipse Resources
Qi Liang has authored an excellent article titled “Using the BIRT Chart Engine in Your Plug-in” that discusses how you can incorporate BIRT charts into your own applications. This article introduces the basic concepts of BIRT Chart Engine, explains what BIRT Chart Engine is composed of, and illustrates how to create a chart and use [...]
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What is Eclipse?
Fairly frequently, I get questions from people asking me just what the heck Eclipse is. It’s difficult to understand what Eclipse is by looking at our website (though that’s something that’s changing—slowly). The problem is that Eclipse is actually pretty hard to define.
Most people know Eclipse as a Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This is [...]
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Duke, Duke, Duke
I arrived earlier today at JavaOne and I have to admit that I’m more confused than ever. Just what the heck is Duke anyway? He/it looks a lot like a tooth with a disturbing amount of decay below the gumline. I got a picture of me chatting briefly with Duke earlier today. I’ll post it [...]
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Scaring Children with Your User Interface
If you’ve found the “Colors and Fonts” page in the Eclipse Workspace Preferences, then you already know that you can customize Eclipse to look as awful as you’d like. Or maybe you went different route and changed the colors and fonts to better suit your personal tastes.
Many aspects of the workbench can be tuned. [...]
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Podcast: Aaron Farr discusses Eclipse RCP
Aaron Farr is an Eclipse RCP expert who has worked on numerous Eclipse RCP applications for various organizations around the world. In this podcast, he discusses some of his experiences with Eclipse RCP.
You can listen the podcast here. The podcast feed on the Eclipse Resources page has also been updated.
Aaron maintains a blog. You can [...]
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Using TPTP to Automate Functional Testing
I just love saying “TPTP”. Of all the projects we have here at Eclipse, TPTP is the one that has the the most entertaining title. Probably my second favourite project name is “Buckminster” (though “Higgins” is also pretty entertaining and conjures up images from Magnum PI).
But anyway…
A new article, titled “Using TPTP to Automate [...]
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