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New Eclipse Word Wrap plugin adds keyboard shortcut
Had a few spare minutes yesterday to move the eclipse word wrap plugin from sourceforge to github. While on it also added keyboard shortcut so you can switch on-off the wrapping using Ctrl+Alt+W (M1,M3+W in “Eclipse Language”). Trust me, it’s a useful plugin : ) Latest version can be installed from the update site: http://ahtik.com/eclipse-update/ [...]
Stop Multitasking, Set Deadlines and Learn About Eisenhower Matrix
TimeGT blog has couple of new productivity-related articles (last post from today). Feel free to check them out, maybe you’ll find something inspiring. They explore issues around multitasking, give ideas about setting your own deadlines for increased productivity and introduce Eisenhower Matrix for task prioritization. How Multitasking Kills Productivity Quadruple Your Productivity by Setting [...]
Changing GIMP, XChat and other GTK apps to English language
This can be a real headache unless you know the trick: create new system environment variable “lang” with value “c” (lang=c).
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 [...]
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 [...]
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[] [...]
SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe
How many of you use java.text.SimpleDateFormat as static field? I have seen this to be pretty standard practice (and have done this myself too). Be aware that SimpleDateFormat#format(..) is not thread-safe and thereby for most of the cases you should not use this as a static field in server, Eclipse RPC or any other multi-threaded [...]
Turning off win xp master volume beep sound
Aren’t you annoyed by the beep that is so loud? I got pretty frustrated after trying to look for disablement under volume control preferences. Nothing there. Also turning off all sound notifications at control panel (including Exclamation sound) didn’t help. Still nothing, just one aloud beep. Windows XP Volume Control Here’s the quickest way [...]
