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EMF Dos and Don´ts #2

EMF is a very powerful framework and with power comes…responsibility. You can achieve great things with a minimum of effort using EMF, but if something goes wrong, you can also spend hours trying to …

Use your HEAD - checking CouchDB document existence

Mar 1, 2013

One common task when working with CouchDB is to find out whether a document with a given ID exists. A simple solution is to send an HTTP GET request with the ID to CouchDB and check the response’s …

EMF Dos and Don´ts #1

EMF is a very powerful framework and with power comes…responsibility. You can achieve great things with a minimum of effort using EMF. But, if something goes wrong you can also spend hours trying to …

Unit Testing RAP Applications

Feb 22, 2013

The latest release of RAP 2.0 is still hot. It also contains some improvements for unit testing as Ralf Sternberg mentioned in one of his blog posts that came along with RAP 2.0. The following post …

API Tools revisited

Feb 21, 2013

Defining APIs is crucial to maintaining modularity. OSGi defines the concepts necessary for API definition such as a service concept and package visibility. However, pure OSGi is not enough to really …

Pro Tip: Unicode characters in the Eclipse console

Feb 21, 2013

Today, while fixing some Unicode characters support in Yoxos, I noticed that the Eclipse console was not rendering the unicode characters properly. Luckily this is really easy to fix. In the Launch …