Archive for the 'Other' Category
Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 3
Excelsior just released Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 3. With Excelsior JET, you can compile your Java- and Eclipse-based applications into a “native” executable with an embedded JRE (no external JRE required). The new version features a GUI for compiling RCP applications. Their website contains a collection of compiled open source applications, including RSSOwl, that come [...]
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Committer Satisfaction
I think we all agree that committer satisfaction is important. As the Eclipse Foundation dedicates resources into developing more and better services for committers, it behooves us to have some sense for whether or not we are indeed improving the committer experience. In order to have any sense of the improvement, we need to have [...]
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There is a Brazilian Eclipse Community…
I’ve been corresponding with a Brazilian developer who has some questions about SWT. Unfortunately, there’s a language barrier that’s preventing me from being helpful. I know that we have a fairly large contingent of committers from Brazil; does anybody out there have a few cycles that they can spare to help a countryman in need? [...]
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CoFFEE anyone?
Scott beat me to the punch here, but I think this is interesting, so I want to share more…
The Lead Project, a 3-year European Union funded research project, has created an interesting bit of software that they’re calling CoFFEE (Cooperative Face2Face Educational Environment). The focus of the project is to support problem solving activities in [...]
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Wow. Just wow
Today, I am envious of the SWT developers. Clearly they have made a huge difference in at least one person’s life…
Yesterday committer Scott Kovatch checked in some accessibility code for the Cocoa port of SWT. In his post to the platform-swt-dev list, he describes accessibility as an “enormous pain in the behind” (update: if you [...]
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Presentations in Eclipse
I’ve been tinkering on-and-off for a couple of years on some Eclipse-based presentation software. My primary motivation is my distrust of existing presentation software. Curiously, I get a new head of steam on the “project” every time PowerPoint or Open Office fries one of my documents. Last week was one of those times.
The effort has [...]
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Reviewers and Editors Deserve Love Too!
We have what has been referred to as an “embarrassment of riches” in Eclipse Corner. We have a lot of articles that are either in development, or are ready for publishing. The problem is that we have a bit of a shortage of reviewers and editors. Perhaps one of the problems is that we do [...]
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Write lots of code
I generally enjoy reading Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog. Yesterday his post, Quantity Always Trumps Quality, made me think of two things. First, the thoughts conveyed are exemplified at Eclipse: we value code over specifications; code is written, mistakes are made, lessons are learned, and everything gets better in the process. Second, it made me [...]
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Paste Snippet
Try this in Eclipse Ganymede (one of the variants that includes the Java development tools):
Copy this text:
System.out.println(new Date());
Bring the Package Explorer into focus (make sure that none of the existing projects is highlighted) and select “Paste” from the context menu.
JDT will build the project, package, class, and main method for you. How cool is that?
There’s [...]
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But I’m not a Newbie!
If you have a question about some Eclipse project, the newsgroups are your best bet.
If you’re not sure what group is appropriate for your question, post it on newcomer. Posters to newcomer are often redirected to other newsgroups, but newcomer is a good starting point since a lot of very knowledgeable people watch the [...]
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