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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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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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Eclipse is Faster
I’m up to #6 in the “Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse” posted by Renaud Waldura sometime in late 2002/early 2003. Since I’m crossing the halfway mark, I thought I mightlay out the previous reaons five for your review.
Eclipse is Free
Eclipse is a Platform
Eclipse Has Momentum
Eclipse is Easy To Extend
The Eclipse Workbench: Views, Editors and Perspectives
Here’s [...]
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Benjamin Pasero discusses RSSOwl 2.0
I just posted a new podcast. In this podcast, Benjamin Pasero, technical lead on the RSSOwl 1.0 project and self-described “significant contributor” to the RSSOwl 2.0 project discusses—among other things—the decision to adopt Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) as a basis for the new version.
This was recorded at the Open Source Pavilion at EclipseCon 2007.
You [...]
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