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Google Guava Quickie: Clean toString methods

Jul 24, 2012

I’m not very good at debugging code. This is the result of a test infection :). When you do test driven development you don’t need to debug very often. But there are rare cases when I need to start …

Branching Support for the EMFStore Model Repository

Maximilian Koegel
Jul 23, 2012

EMFStore is a model repository based on EMF and the Eclipse RCP application framework. It enables EMF and RCP based applications to easily version and distribute their domain models with very few …

How to apply a custom theme to an Android application

Moritz Post
Jul 20, 2012

Since the release of Android 4.0, we have seen an increase in applications that follow the new Android design guidelines. The guide describes the Android holo theme that provides a cohesive user …

Configuring the OS-X application menu for SWT apps

Jul 19, 2012

If you write a ‘pure’ SWT application on the Mac (i.e. just SWT – no RCP/workbench), you will notice that the OS-X application menu is not properly configured. It just displays ‘SWT’ instead of the …

Is Eclipse awesome?

Jochen Krause
Jul 18, 2012

Today, there is one major ingredient for successful technology marketing: Use the word “awesome” as often as you can. You can even do better by using “totally awesome”. Or “insanely awesome” if you …

Clean compareTo methods with Google Guava

Jul 17, 2012

A common task in object oriented programming is comparing two objects for the purpose of sorting. In Java the useful Comparable<T> Interface exists. I’ve found myself implementing the compareTo method …