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Promotion code for TimeGT discount
There is a limited time offer to get 20% off from monthly and 50% off from 6 month packages! Use AHTIK5217 at checkout! Discount is yours to keep until you cancel or upgrade subscription. Promotion code is valid for next 10 days (will expire November 30th, 2009). Never heard about TimeGT? Check out timegt.com!
New TimeGT available, with grace period and more
New tasks and notes manager – TimeGT – came out with a new version — improved features and stability. More details at http://bit.ly/18tppm
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 [...]
Changing number scale for Oracle NUMBER columns
Whenever you try to change your NUMBER column to more specific scale like NUMBER(10,2) you end up with an error message: SQL Error: ORA-01440: column to be modified must be empty to decrease precision or scale There is a way out of this but it is a bit hacky. Let me know if there is [...]
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 [...]
JEY!! Just a happy smile
yeah. long silence is gone, multiuser wordpress is finally configured and ready for action! What a challenge, finally ended up tweaking couple of cookie paths. MU WP was part of the common blogging syndicate that we set up for fun between me, Ivar and couple of others at Techlipse.com.
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 [...]
Configuring Eclipse SVN (Subclipse) to use JavaHL(JNI)
Configuring JavaHL for Eclipse is not as straightforward as it could be so posting a quick HOWTO. Following applies mostly to Linux users. With Ubuntu the fool-proof steps are: Make sure libsvn-java, subversion and libsvn1 packages are installed Add following to the end of your eclipse.ini file: -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni Restart eclipse and make sure JavaHL is [...]
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 [...]
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