Eclipse

Eclipse Europa – Features worth checking out

July 8, 2007

Eclipse 3.3 code named Europa was released few days back and this annual released featured a simultaneous release of 21 projects. I took Europa for a test drive and it feels much faster than Callisto (Eclipse 3.2) Here are some of the new features worth making a note of: Java Perspective Changes In the default [...]

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Source Control in Eclipse IDE

June 18, 2007

Source Control also known as Revision control or source code management (SCM) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. Source Control is most commonly used in software development to manage ongoing development of documents like application source code or design documents or any electronic information which is worked on by [...]

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How To: Browse remote files in Eclipse IDE

June 6, 2007

Eclipse.org always amaze me with the kind of tooling that they go on adding to the Eclipse Platform. Few months back when I was browsing the different projects in Eclipse, I stumbled on Remote System Explorer (RSE) Remote System Explorer is part of Target Management which in turn in a subproject of Device Software Development [...]

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HowTo: Tail Files in Eclipse IDE

May 19, 2007

Unix ‘tail’ command is used to display the last few lines of a file. The ‘-f’ parameter makes the utility more useful in the sense that it allows you to ‘follow’ the output of the file. As and when additional lines are added to the file, they are displayed on the terminal. The follow parameter [...]

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Automated GUI Recorder

April 24, 2007

Eclipse Testing and Performance Tools Platform Project project has a great write-up on using TPTP’s automated GUI recorder. TPTP’s Automated GUI Recorder (AGR) works by registering listeners with the SWT’s display instance to record all incoming UI events that directly correspond to user’s actions. The recorder keeps track of the context of the events and [...]

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Martin Fowler : Inversion of Control

February 27, 2007

Neil Bartlett, a Java developer and a consultant specializing in Eclipse RCP and OSGi is continuing his series of OSGi articles on Eclipsezone. In one of his latest post, he pointed to a paper titled “IoC Containers and Dependency Injection pattern” written by Martin Fowler. It was worth a read and the articles section has [...]

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Learn PHP

December 30, 2006

Paul Stamatiou has written a nice series on building a web app using MySQL and PHP. How To: Code your First Web App Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 I always wanted to try my hands on PHP and these articles are pretty good to get started on PHP and MySQL. Also don’t forget that [...]

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Camel-Case Search in Eclipse

December 26, 2006

I have extensively used Eclipse for the past 2 years and as with every other IDE, the first thing I do is to find out/use the keyboard shortcuts in the application. Eclipse is a great IDE to work with and I should probably start a series of posts which might help me and others in [...]

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Eclipse 3.3

December 21, 2006

If you didn’t know Eclipse 3.3 is already in progress and you can grab the latest milestone release M4 here. The release is code named as Europa and you can find all the new and noteworthy features here One of the complaints with Eclipse has been the slow startup. There seems to be a major [...]

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Eclipse.org – “New” look

October 7, 2006

Eclipse.org, the official site of Eclipse had a “look and feel” upgrade yesterday. Unlike the Eclipse platform, the site was not so usable, it was always a pain searching for information in the website. I still have to explore the new interface and see whether they have improved on these aspects. From what I observed [...]

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