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Cleaner Code with Guava Optionals and Preconditions
Working towards clean code is a priority for me when I develop software. For some time I’ve been using Google Guava for nearly all my projects. The reason is simple. Guava provides great facilities to …
Does the Google App Engine still matter?
Although it started three years ago with the promise of almost infinite scalability and a big echo in the community, it has become quiet around the Google App Engine. Google trends reveals that search …
Understanding the p2.index file
Lately the p2.index file (or lack thereof) has caused a serious problem for the Eclipse foundation infrastructure. Denis highlighted the problems the file causes, but I thought it might help us …
Tycho, Maven and p2.inf
Today I spent some time on the RAP Tools build which is based on Tycho. The problem that I tried to solve had to do with our recent ID renaming of the RAP Tools feature to a more appropriate …
Eclipse proxies and p2
If you use Eclipse and the Eclipse provisioning platform (p2) behind a proxy, then you´re no doubt aware of theNetwork Connection Preference Dialog. While this dialog works well if you need to …
Eclipse on a Mac
As Pascal mentioned yesterday, on a Mac, Eclipse based applications can now be shipped with the standard Mac layout. For those not familiar with the problem, if you structure your Mac application in a …