Manuel Woelker
Persistent Trees in git, Clojure and CouchDB
This is a tale of three images. I found these images while investigating the internals of several different applications.
Maven in Eclipse
In the past I have said some unkind words about about maven’s pom.
Type Inference at Design Time via Eclipse
Dynamically typed programming languages have become more popular over the recent years.
Beyond XML: The Future of Extensible Metaformats
Yesterday I discussed some of the issues with XML. Today I’ll be taking a look at three of the potential alternatives that may improve on the current situation.
XML: Still No Silver Bullet
The XML format has done a lot in the last decade to reduce some of the pains of legacy formats and to encourage application interoperability.
Why is that button gray?
There is a user interface design issue that has been bugging me for quite some time, but I haven’t been able to put my finger on it until recently.
Groovy, Eclipse Commands and Expressions
During my last project I had the dubious joy to work with a boatload of command framework expressions (activeWhen, enabledWhen).
Check out the Eclipse project dashboard
EclipseCon was quite a blast, lots of amazing talks, some very engaging keynotes and loads of interesting people to meet.
Make p2, not war!
I’ve been busy this weekend preparing one of the EclipseCon talks I will be doing together with Jordi.
Git BoF @ EclipseCon
EclipseCon is coming up, and to my big suprise the Git BoF got accepted.
Unit testing revelations
The other day I experienced an unexpected light bulb moment concerning unit testing.
Exceptions From a User's Perspective
I have been pondering exceptions quite a lot lately. Especially how to break the bad news to the user.
The new Eclipse download wizard and RAP performance
The Eclipse Packaging Project is working on a wizard that allows you to build your own customizable download, combining plug-ins from predefined packages and Ganymede.