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Cool stuff presented at the Eclipse democamp
Dresden, Nov. 25th 2010 – There have been some really nice presentations at the democamp in Dresden again. Lars Martin from itemis AG started with a demonstration of Tycho. Tycho is a set of plugins...
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Eclipse Tips & Tricks: Block Selection Mode
Perspectives in Eclipse are really nice to provide you only the tools you need for certain tasks. Still, not too long ago I concluded that my toolbar is way to stuffed with icons I never use. So I...
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Eclipse Tips & Tricks: Property Testers with Command Core Expressions
Recently I was challenged getting declared commands enabled in an RCP application using own property testers. It seems the documentation of Eclipse’s Command Core Expressions framework is missing an...
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Eclipse Tips & Tricks: Label-Updating Command Handler
This time I’ll show another barely documented feature of Eclipse’ Command Core framework: Having commands update their labels based on a selection or whatever else. I believe, not knowing how this is...
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Eclipse Democamp Dresden Summary
Dresden, Jun. 21st 2011 – There have been some really nice presentations at the democamp in Dresden again. Jan Köhnlein from itemis AG started with a demonstration of Xtext 2.0. Xtext is a language...
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10,000 GDI objects ought to be enough for anybody
The famous quote by Bill Gates, “640K ought to be enough for anybody”, stating that nobody would ever need more memory in a computer still is a good laugh. (Bill has denied making this remark, but the...
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Eclipse Diff Util For Creating Dropins Folder Contents
Personally I prefer the drop-ins folder for extending my Eclipse with new plug-ins and features. Having all your favorite extensions in one place separated from the default Eclipse contents is great....
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Eclipse Tips & Tricks: Detail Formatter
1. Your Situation You find yourself debugging a Java app with Eclipse and you’re stepping through the code in the Debug perspective. You have the Variables view open and for most of the selected types...
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Announcing: Mousefeed Plug-in 2.0.0
Update: My Mousefeed fork has been merged Please read this: Eclipse Mousefeed Plugin merged with Marketplace Plugin. Update: MouseFeed 2.0.0 for Eclipse 4.2 available Today I finished adopting the...
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About a year ago I forked the original Mousefeed Plugin due to a serious NullPointerException bug and because the original author could not be contacted. Later I became aware of another fork that even...
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Summary Eclipse Kepler Democamp 2013-06-13 in Dresden
Dresden, Jun. 13th 2013 – Again there have been some very interesting presentations at the democamp in Dresden. First it was my pleasure to talk about extending Eclipse using the dropins folder. As it...
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