Archive for July 30th, 2012

Eclipse is an extensible IDE, giving users lots of freedom (and opportunity) to customize the tool for their own use. However, sometimes you run up against a barrier and the only way to get around it is to download and modify the source code yourself. For example, let’s say you love the Eclipse Package Explorer, [...]

I love Android, but its default browser is terrible. For relatively simple, static websites it’s okay, but i’m talking about complex HTML(5)/JavaScript applications here. And while Safari for iOs is considerably faster, it’s has almost as many quirks and bugs.  A great alternative to native apps or Flash this ain’t (yet). My frustration comes from [...]

We have been using GitHub at EclipseSource for roughly 2 years now. Using it as a company means that we are hosting all our internal projects, products and many customer projects on GitHub. GitHub was (and is) a great solution for us, except when it came to accessing multiple private GitHub repositories from our build [...]

When it comes to Code Coverage and Java, you can’t ignore JaCoCo. JaCoCo was created by Marc Hoffmann based on the lessons learned using the popular Emma coverage tool. There are plenty of projects using JaCoCo but there was one missing piece – integrating the coverage report into the automated build. Since there was no JaCoCo Plugin for [...]