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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 6, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 14, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 9, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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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