Jordi Böhme López

Here at EclipseSource we like top 10 blog posts. So here is our top 10 of 2012 – the posts most viewed or created the most buzz. 1. Top 10 Eclipse Juno Features Eclipse Juno has been released this year and it was the first simultaneous release built on Eclipse 4. In preparation of the [...]

Over the last years I have seen many OSGi project, and while I am pretty happy with most of them there is a tendency to oversized launch configurations. Keeping the launch configs lean is not easy because the automatic dependency resolver can not always pick the smallest set possible. And maybe even worse it is [...]

Learning to write code efficiently is only one step towards becoming a coding master. Another step is learning to debug. When it comes to legacy or 3rd party code you will need to debug in order to understand how the code behaves. In this post I will give you some basic tips on how to [...]

Just in time for Christmas, I’m happy to announce our biggest release yet: Tabris 0.9.0. The new AppLauncher API will enable a tighter integration with iOS and Android and a seamless user experience with other Apps. Alternative Selection for List and Tree is now available. And many changes and additions happened under the hood – [...]

So you have build an iOS app using Tabris or another technology of your choice? Then you should know how to get your app to your users. In order to distribute an iOS app, the following things are needed: A Mac or access to an OS X machine like provided by MacinCloud An up-to-date version [...]

I’ve met many programmers over the years who had just started using Eclipse or already had “some experience” — but they used Eclipse just as a text editor or handled it in a very cumbersome way. The main problem was that they hadn’t yet learned about Eclipse’s capabilities and how to leverage its powerful features. [...]

Tabris has made a big step forward in this 0.7 release. We included many improvements and fixes requested by our users. And we also got some nice new features… New and Noteworthy Base Technology Update to RAP 2.0 M1 The most important change in this release is the support for RAP 2.0 M1. This change [...]

In a next release of Tabris we will provide support for Camera. This will allow you to show a UI on the client to take a photo or select a picture on your device. The selected Image will then be scaled and sent to the server so you can use it in your App. While [...]

If you need to get a matching UIFont object from a CSS definition like “font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;” you have no way to do it with the API that iOS provides for three reasons. First, there is a non-API method on UIFont called +(UIFont*)fontWithMarkupDescription:(NSString*)markupDescription; that could do the conversion/lookup most of the time. Using [...]