Category Archives: Technology

If you’ve noticed that Bugzilla now asks you to put in a comment when you’re just marking a bug as a duplicate, you should go read up on bug 288058. Please don’t file new bugs or else the webmasters will … Continue reading →

Just last month, I joined the ranks of Nick Boldt, Ian Bull, Veronika Irvine, Wassim Melhem, Eric Moffatt, Andrew Niefer, Paul Webster, and presumably many other Eclipse community members that I don’t know of, in receiving my diploma from the … Continue reading →

Eclipse-based applications looks and feels native thanks to SWT but once you start gandering at them icons, it just doesn’t quite hit the mark. For the readers out there that are familiar with the Tango Desktop Project, the window below … Continue reading →

I have a (bad) reputation of overscoping… The above is what one of my supervisors have commented about me during an internship for an unnamed employer. So what have I been doing now? The latest thing I’ve been dabbling my … Continue reading →

Now that finals are over, I’ve been able to spend more time hacking on Eclipse. One of the things I’ve been working on recently is extending the shared editing work that Mustafa showed in his screencast about a year ago … Continue reading →

Is it time to change our releng game plan and/or how the downloads page is setup to provide more visibility for the p2 installer? * energetic (n=opera@ip82-139-119-221.lijbrandt.net) has joined #eclipse energetic: Hi all energetic: Am I with stupid or does … Continue reading →

I’d imagine that some of you Eclipsepedia users out there may be familiar with the ‘Infobox‘ template. It’s featured prominently on a couple of project wiki pages like PDE, Equinox, and ECF. I’ve recently added a new ‘Contribute’ section for … Continue reading →

I’ve been hacking on an implementation of Platform/Team’s synchronization API for the past couple of days using ECF’s datashare API as the transport and I have to say that I think I’ve made some great progress so far. I’m really … Continue reading →

In 3.5M3, we introduced two new API methods, showEditor(IEditorReference) and hideEditor(IEditorReference), in IWorkbenchPage. This is an interim solution that was proposed as an attempt to resolve bug 11001. Paul has provided a great description about what those two methods do … Continue reading →

“Taking it to the next level” is a phrase we often used amongst the Extreme Blue teams and staff at the IBM Ottawa Software Lab in 2007 and I think it is quite fitting for this post. Whenever we didn’t … Continue reading →