Eclipse
Google Summer of Code mid term survey deadline close!
Dear Eclipse GSoC students and mentors, Please make sure your survey is filled in latest for tomorrow, July 16th 19.00 UTC. See http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/timeline for details. .. and have fun! : ) Feel free to contact me or any of the program admins in case of any troubles!
Eclipse DemoCamp TALLINN flyer available!
We prepared a small pdf flyer to promote Eclipse DemoCamp taking place in Tallinn, Estonia. See Eclipse DemoCamp Tallinn/Estonia website for event details! Direct link to flyer: Eclipse DemoCamp Tallinn PDF Flyer. Feel free to share!
IntelliJ IDEA goes Open-Source!
Yesterday (October 15th, 2009) IntelliJ announced open-sourcing most of its IDEA editor under Apache 2.0 license. Inevitable for growth At some perspective this has been an inevitable move — code editors have turned into big platforms. They are used for much more than developing pure text-based artifacts. To remain competitive you need to allow the [...]
Eclipse Datatools (DTP) gets Amazon AWS SimpleDB Support!
Great news for Eclipse community and SimpleDB fans — Amazon AWS team released Amazon SimpleDB Management tool that is built on top of Eclipse Datatools! SimpleDB Management in Eclipse lets you access SimpleDB to create, edit and view domains, items and attributes without writing a single line of code. Additionally you can use SQL Scrapbook [...]
Total Eclipse of the Heart
99.99% times I do not like to re-post youtube video links but this time I just have to spread some genius rework of a music video. And what’s more — song title is “Total Eclipse of the Heart”. So let’s use the video to find some out-of-the-box inspiration for our Eclipse platform future! Thanks for [...]
Quick hint: Ignore bin, target, build etc dirs in Eclipse CVS and SVN Synchronize View
Directory ignore feature for svn and cvs in Eclipse Synchronize View is located in a straightforward place but still from time to time we tend to forget. I keep looking at SVN settings and synchronize View Menu but it is not there. Here it comes: Window->Preferences->Team->Ignored Resources Faster is to simply type “ignored” into preferences [...]
No, Cancel, Yes?
New Eclipse 3.5M7 provides an interesting approach for confirmation dialogs. Previous “Yes, No, Cancel” has been replaced with “No, Cancel, Yes” options. I wonder what is the reasoning behind it.. Read more (including screenshots) at Ivar blog.
Using Glassfish Eclipse Bundle for JavaDB, JPA and JSP
Have you ever wondered how quickly one could get from installing a J2EE server to running a JSP page that fetches data from DB using modern persistency technology like JPA? To find out we (me and Ivar) did a little test-drive using recently announced Glassfish Eclipse Bundle that contains Eclipse IDE with bundled Glassfish J2EE [...]
Can you guess the output? junit and initialization
Can you guess the output without running the code? The relation to Eclipse is simply the fact that big part of eclipse.org is a great example of good test coverage built on top of jUnit. Plus, it was literally pulling my hair out in one of the eclipse-related testing-suites. I stepped into this a few [...]
Java Quiz of The Day – same private field instance for two classes
What is the smallest change to main method that makes it sysout “true”? You are allowed to change ONLY the main method! Of course changing sysout line is out of question. You can leave your answer in comments and I’ll publish/approve them together with the solution. [java] public class InstanceDemo { public static void main(String[] [...]
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