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Visualization of Eclipse Project Source Code Commits

Monday, June 16, 2008

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Grant Gochnauer sent in a cool visualization to the source code history, starting in 2001 with the initial code drop, of the Eclipse source code repository (including the extra projects). If you are a coder or just like to see visually how huge collaborative projects grow, check it out: code_swarm - Eclipse (short ver.) from Michael Ogawa [...]

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LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java

Friday, June 6, 2008

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This is actually pretty awesome for any of the Java devs out there that are concerned that Java is dying and Ruby/Rails/Flavor-of-the-Month is rising up to replace it… it seems that the huge professional social networking site (no, not MySpace) LinkedIn is actually written in 99% Java except for some in-memory C++ caches that they [...]

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Using MediaTemple’s Subversion (SVN+SSH) with Eclipse

Monday, May 14, 2007

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Update #1: I normally add ‘Updates’ at the bottom, but this one simplifies this entire post. Daniel Spiewak was kind enough to point out that simply using the preferred Eclipse Subversion plugin “Subversive” works right out of the box, without any of this monkey-business. I have not confirmed this yet though, but I’d say it’s [...]

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Eclipse Help Documentation Gotchas

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

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If any of you are working with Eclipse plugins or just starting, here is a gotcha that I ran into that had me completely stumped for a good hour or so. The Eclipse help system enforces “Best practices”. Keep that in the back of your head as you work on extensions to org.eclipse.help.toc and wonder why none [...]

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Eclipse 3.2 Running ontop of Swing

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

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Well the “Eclipse on Swing” discussion is heating up again. I have to admit that I do not see the allure to this. Assuming of course there is some benefit to doing this port, by the time it reaches parity with native SWT/JFace I imagine both Swing and SWT will be fast/flexible enough that no [...]

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