It has been quite some time since the last update of the Timekeeper for Eclipse plug-in. Having used it myself for a while I soon realized that the tool was promising, but there were some essential bits that had to be improved. So all this
For the twelfth year in a row there is an Eclipse conference in Germany this October – I have to admit it’s my favourite conference; friendly faces everywhere, good food, awesome keynotes, great talks, and even a band to dance to during the…
For the sixth year in a row Itema has hosted an Eclipse DemoCamp in Trondheim. And even though I might be biased; I would have to say it was a real pleasure. There was the usual, fairly small crowd and a few new faces. The friendly atmosphe…
EclipseCon France is taking place in a few weeks so I figured it’s about time I started working on my presentation and get distracted doing so. This year I’m talking about How Mylyn Docs can be a powerful tool. For the EclipseCon North Amer…
It’s been almost a month since EclipseCon North America 2016 closed, but I figured it is not too late to write a short retrospective, so here goes. EclipseCon is a series of conferences arranged by the Eclipse Foundation in the USA, France
Time flies when you’re having fun! EclipseCon France has just finished and it’s already time to plan for EclipseCon Europe 2015 in November. The call for papers is out, and you should not miss the chance to present at the tenth European Ecl…
When the better looking Eclipse Marketplace was announced earlier today I got a nice reminder that I had forgot to announce the new version of the OS X Eclipse Launcher. It’s a fairly popular tool, currently ranking at 168 of 804 products a…
There are different notions of what an unit test actually is. While most will agree that it is a test that verifies a pretty small part of a software system, we don’t all agree on how big a part this is. Personally I want a unit test to cov…
I realized it’s been quite a while since I wrote about building electronic books using the tools in Mylyn Docs and figured it is about time I published an update. It’s been pretty quiet around this project. I’ve had a couple of e-mails with…
It became tiresome not being able to see which version of Eclipse my OS X Dock icons leads to, so I quickly put together one for Luna and another for Mars using images picked from Wikipedia. On OS X one can easily replace an application ico…
It’s now been a bit over a year since a wrote about running Eclipse RCP projects on a Raspberry Pi. Since then something really exiting has taken place. Tim Webb and Jed Anderson of Genuitec has published PiPlug; a runtime and deployment to…
If you’re developing in Java and also using Maven you should be using a repository manager. You probably have one at work. But do have one for your hobby projects? As you probably know; proxying Maven repositories can be quite beneficial. I…