Eclipse
Eclipse Top 5 Annoyances
Here is the list of Top 5 Eclipse Annoyances we came up today at the coffee-table, possibly nice to share (in the order of importance). Also serves as a good wish-list to my Santa Claus! 1. Update Manager With the help of p2 provisioning and hard work this will be hopefully solved for 3.5. Please [...]
Summer of Code: writing PHP plugins
Toomas finished the official part of the google summer of code program. It was an honor to be the mentor and I had/still have a lot of fun with him. Grab The PHP writing plugin for Eclipse from the update site and check it out if it works for you! Sorry, but java6 and eclipse [...]
Bridging the Gap and Ready for Prime Time
A friend of mine visited JavaOne. Hmm, not surprising. But it was really surprising to see what has happened with Eclipse.
Google and $4500 are waiting for your Eclipse contributions
Google has started it’s annual Google Summer of Code program where hundreds of university students are paid to make open source contributions. Each successful submission is honored with $4500 to student’s bank account (local taxes apply) and $500 to Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse is one of the participating open source organizations and previous years have been [...]
Eclipse 3.3M5 is not working out of the box with Gentoo
At least not for me and at least not out of box using package from download.eclipse.org: eclipse-SDK-3.3M5-linux-gtk ahti@ahtuxhome /opt/eclipse-SDK-3.3M5 $ ./eclipse * run-java-tool is not available for sun-jdk-1.6 on i686 * IMPORTANT: some Java tools are not available on some VMs on some architectures This problem is with any JRE and nichoj from #gentoo-java seems [...]
New Feature: Whitespace color/alpha blending (transparency)
Eclipse 3.3M4 introduced a cool feature called “Show invisible whitespace characters” (see 3.3M4 News). Unfortunately some of us find it a bit too visible. Let’s make Eclipse a better place to live, right? I have created a patch that makes the visibility configurable via preferences page: Continue reading to download this feature (three patched plugins [...]
Eclipse Community Awards nomination
Eclipse Community Awards nomination is open for last 10 days. The awards will be presented on March 5, 2007 at EclipseCon 2007. The Eclipse Community Awards are to recognize and thank the individuals and technologies that make Eclipse such a vibrant robust community. Here is the latest list of Individial Award nominees with a few [...]
More is not better: Eclipse Quick Switch Editor revisited
One thing that netbeans does well is to support multiple rows of tabs for opened editors. Eclipse on the other hand makes these tabs just as unusable as Firefox after having more than 10 pages/editors open. I think it is possible to improve the usability. But how?
TOP 5 reasons for Eclipse Certification
Wayne Beaton questioned the importance of certification for eclipse community. I’ve been wondering about this and seems like a great time to bring it up. Here is my humble TOP 5/DOWN 1 for having/not having them.
Eclipse Birthday!
Eclipse is 5 years old! Just about month ago Google got 8. Who could have thought that Eclipse is younger than Google! Help us to spread the word and sign your Eclipse greeting card at eclipse birthday central. There are eclipse-funded parties all over the world, find your local from http://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipsebirthday5/birthdayparties.php Unfortunately November is very [...]
