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Ian Skerrett06/20/12
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Comments and Suggestions from the Eclipse Survey

At the end of the Eclipse Community Survey we ask for general comments and suggestions about Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation. I decided to respond and highlight some of them.

Erich Styger06/19/12
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Bracketeer: the Ultimate Bracket Plugin

If you are like me, then it is easy to miss a bracket or two in my source code. Or I have tons of closing brackets at the end of a function, and it is hard to tell which one is which?

Ian Skerrett06/06/12
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Top 10 Most Popular New Eclipse Plugins

Eclipse Marketplace continues to be the place to discover interesting and relevant Eclipse plugins. There are over 100,000 successful installs/month of Eclipse-based products via the Eclipse Marketplace client.

Rob Williams06/02/12
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Validation in Eclipse, Again

In theory, the idea of an open ecosystem where everyone can just add their little contributions sounds good. So does the idea of a building where instead of blueprints, we could bus in kids from schools all over the country and each could go up and make their own contributions.

Erich Styger05/30/12
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Eclipse Working Sets Explained

But over time I add more projects, more resources to my project, and at a certain time things get overwhelming. I have a lot of projects, and I do not want to switch between workspace too often.

Erich Styger05/29/12
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5 Best Eclipse Plugins: #2 (AnyEdit Tools)

Small little helpers are the things in a developers hand which can make his life easier and simpler. The advantage with the Eclipse IDE is that there are many such helpers and extensions in the form of extra plugins you can install and use.

Mitch Pronschinske05/29/12
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DZone 2012 Community Survey - Gift Cards up for Grabs!

Each year we like to pick your brain to help us make things even better at DZone, and in return we are offering up one $100 and two $50 Amazon gift cards to randomly selected DZone members who respond to our annual survey.

Erich Styger05/17/12
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Exporting and Importing Projects in Eclipse

I admit that I have bad habits: one of it is that usually I find a way to do things, and if that works, I stick with it. And here is such a thing: exporting and importing projects in Eclipse.

Erich Styger05/11/12
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Eclipse Global Preferences

Eclipse is good, but like any other tool: it gets better after I have it customized for my special needs. Eclipse stores a lot of settings in the workspace, see my article about Copy my workspace settings. But is there a way to apply some settings to every workspace?

Steven Lott05/11/12
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Rants On The Daily Grind of Building Software

For some people, Tools Trump Language. Sadly, I've also had customers with ancient code they could no longer compile or maintain because the tools were out of support.

Erich Styger05/08/12
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The Mother of all Eclipse Shortcuts

The article on 10 Best Eclipse Shortcuts lists many very useful shortcuts. But it is missing the Mother of all Shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+L:

Erich Styger05/06/12
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Linting Without a Plugin

I will show how to set up PC-lint as compiler for my project, how to pass options to the PC-lint compiler and how to configure the messages for the Problems view.

Erich Styger05/03/12
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Managing Recent Workspaces

Sometimes I have to abandon a workspace, especially if I’m using too many (see my previous post how many I have right now). But the workspace still shows up in the recent workspace list, even if the directory has been deleted. How can I get rid of an unwanted workspace? As always, there is a setting for this…

Erich Styger05/02/12
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5 Best Eclipse Plugins: System and Desktop Search

Ranked as number 3 on my list of Eclipse plugins is something I missed in Eclipse, but what I heavily use in Microsoft Visual Studio: The ability to search files anywhere on my computer