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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 [...]

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Maven 2, Java 5, JUnit 4 and Eclipse with 3 steps!

STEP 1 – Create project mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.timegt.core -DartifactId=timegt-core STEP 2 – Fix pom.xml 1. replace name and url 2. replace 3.8.1 with 4.1 for junit-4.1 support 3. add this for JDK 5.0 support: <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <source>1.5</source> <target>1.5</target> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> STEP 3 – Generate eclipse project settings and download/link [...]

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Finished Part One of Blog Refactoring

To keep you in loop, I have now: reorganized blog categories, removed summerofcode 2006 blogroll, removed recent comments and trackbacks menuitems, added rotating quotes, hand-picked replaced hard-to-use search form with google search Site looks a lot cleaner now Let’s see where do we get with this now, I really hope to find more readers as [...]

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Eclipse Summit Europe 2006

11-12 October, Esslingen, Germany The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce Eclipse Summit Europe, the Foundation’s inaugural European conference for the Eclipse community. The purpose is to generate interest and deepen understanding in the consumer community to generate feedback and ideas for contributions to eclipse to promote opportunities within the Eclipse community for contributions in [...]

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Welcome back, dear word-wrap

At first sorry about those who have been checking for an update of this blog for a month. Regardless of this inactivity there have been quite a lot visitors. I’m glad to see that people like what I’m doing. Thank you! There have been busy days and let’s admit – weather in Estonia has been [...]

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Fix for Eclipse Word Wrap plugin – version 0.0.2 released

Everyone who had problems with word wrap plugin (“The chosen operation is not currently available”) please update/install this new version. If you did not have any problem then update is not neccessary. Continue reading to get installation instructions.

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First alpha of eclipse word wrap released!

First experimental version (0.0.1) of eclipse word/line wrapping is now released to test plugin release cycle, update-site structure and deliver almost working version of wordwrap!

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Real men use nightly builds – how to update your release-candidate or milestone Eclipse?

Whenever new eclipse milestone or RC comes out, I’ll download and unpack eclipse full package and reinstall plugins. Next step in my evolution was to discover plugin extensionpoints to keep at least plugins separately. But there is actually an update site for integration builds!

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Eclipse word-wrap functionality

For now, following decision-points have been discovered for soft wrap: Enable wrapping: is it File or System-wide Setting? Good would be to have file-specific setting and add global option for newly opened files. Should the state of wrap-mode restored after reopening file with editor? If yes then how to reset this option globally without making [...]

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