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Eclipse, Education and Open Source
I’m excited to learn that certain computer science students will be contributing to Eclipse (WTP in particular) as part of university class credit. Personally, I think this is fantastic and much …
Toggling a Command contribution
Every once in a while something just doesn’t happen to be as intiutive as you would have liked it to be. Lately I was trying to contribute a simple command based toggle button to the workbench. …
All systems go
I just recieved my EclipseCon 2009 Registration confirmation. Here are my talks that were accepted: My workbench on your desktop? The Yoxos OnDemand free download configurator. Down with WAR. …
First blog entry: Hello world
This semester my wife gives a lecture in theoretical computer science at the KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). The current topic is decidability and therefor the students learn about the …
Tip: Encoding Issues with Plug-ins
Have you ever come across an issue while developing an Eclipse-based application, go to export it and get an evil “Invalid character constant” message or something similar in your logs? This happens …
Extended Presentation API
If you want to make a custom look&feel for an RCP or RAP application you have no choice other than to write a new Presentation. But if you’ve already worked with the Presentation API, I would bet that …