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10 Principles for Electronic Self-Management
My 12-year old niece is just learning to get a bit organized. The most important habit her parents try to teach her is to do things right away. Found something you need in your piano lesson? Put it in...
Using shared libraries with Eclipse RCP
This post describes an easy – but little known way – to use native libraries (.dlls) with Eclipse RCP. In my current work, I’m shipping an RCP application that interacts directly with hardware...
RAP 1.5: the Workbench and the New Default Theme
Last month I wrote a post on the new look and feel of e4 and helped all those to revert to the old style that did not like the new theme: Eclipse 4 Theme - ‘New’ vs ‘Classic’....
The future of GWT?
Last month I was researching options for writing multi-platform mobile apps in Java. Beside our own framework Tabris the Google Web Toolkit is an obvious option. When I started to dig a little deeper...
How to create blueprints for your OSGi building blocks
With OSGi we are able to implement building blocks for modular applications. Dependency injection frameworks support us in writing flexible, testable and clean code. The “Blueprint Container...
To catch or not to catch... Throwable
Many developers still catch Throwable in their try/catch statements. Is this a good idea? I don’t think so. As all of you know, Throwable is a generic superclass for all exception and errors in...