Archive for January, 2008
BoF BoF bo BoF, banane manane a fo FoF, …
The BoF submissions for EclipseCon 2008 are starting to pile up. You can view them here. Sadly, none of them have descriptions that rival the Mylyn one in comedic value, but there’s still time.
In terms of popularity, it seems that the Mega Modeling Mania BoF is the current front runner. While I probably wouldn’t have [...]
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Klingon? Why not?
I think that I may have had something to do with this… A few months back, I made a crack to Denis that it’d only be a matter of time before somebody submitted Klingon translations for Eclipse. Imagine that, Eclipse in Klingon…
Anyway, Klingon is a featured language on Babel. Check it out. You can even [...]
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On again, BoF again
I’ve started to go through some of the BoF submissions for EclipseCon, and came across this gem:
Mylyn Bashing, Brainstorming and Beer BOF
On Mylyn we typically perform UI reviews on conference calls and bug reports. This one will be a little different. As the Mylyn committers present the key parts of the UI, everyone attending will [...]
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Using the Eclipse Workbench
Mark Dexter’s done it again. If you’re new to the Eclipse Workbench and need a tour, take a look here. For the uninitiated, the workbench is the focal point of an IDE built on Eclipse.
If you’re thinking, for example, of using the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers download from the eclipse.org downloads page, another [...]
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Eclipse on Four Operating Systems
Last week, I successfully fixed the Ubuntu 7.10 installation my laptop (a Dell D820). I had been experiencing several bizarre problems; most of them unquantifiable. It just didn’t work “right”. One of the more quantifiable problems was some Java instability. Java applications (at least while running the Sun JVM) just weren’t able to run without [...]
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PEBKAC
Here’s a great time way to kill an hour… Add a table to your view and neglect to set widths on the columns. Hilarity ensues. Pebkac.
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DeferredContentProvider: My new favourite thing
I’ve built two tables over the past two days and both of them are pretty expensive to populate. Leaving the user waiting while you run off and fetch all the data before you can display the table is bad form. To keep in your users’ good graces, consider using the DeferredContentProvider.
DeferredContentProvider is part of JFace, [...]
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Listenin’ to Parts
The Eclipse workbench contains a collection of stacked views and editors. Some views change their appearance based on the active editor. The Outline view is a good example of this: it changes its appearance (sometimes quite dramatically) when a different editor is activated. The workbench provides a handy mechanism that you can use to make [...]
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Last Chance To Be Heard at OSCON 2008!
Hey all you folks out there doing Eclipse stuff… The call for participation for OSCON, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, to be held July 21-25 in Portland, Oregon ends on February 4th. Last year’s conference was a lot of fun and they love the Eclipse content!
Submit your proposals today. There’s more information here.
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The Selection Service
If you’re building plug-ins for the Eclipse platform, you’re more than likely going to need the selection service. The selection service, as you might have guess from the name, takes care of selections in the workbench. Selections happen all over the place. Selecting a file in the navigator results in a selection. Similarly, selecting a [...]
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