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Eric Genesky03/29/12
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Video: Windows Azure and Java Unite! How to Create a Maven Project with Eclipse

This post also includes more technical documentation on Java SDK for Azure linked below the video.

James Sugrue03/29/12
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EclipseCon 2012 Roundup

EclipseCon is taking place this week in Reston, Virginia. It sounds like it was another lively Eclipse event. Keeping with tradition EclipseCon started with the Eclipse Community Awards, before starting off with three days packed with great Eclipse talks, including a keynote from Ford about the car platform of the future.

Wayne Beaton03/13/12
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Eclipse 4 and the CSS Spy

The CSS Spy is a handy resource for figuring out how to refer the various parts of the user interface and sorting out the kinds of properties that you can apply. It lets you drill into the properties of the various UI elements

Wayne Beaton03/13/12
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Editing the Eclipse 4 Workbench CSS

The overall look of Eclipse 4 is controlled with CSS stylesheets. The CSS files take the same form as those for a browser, but underlying model is understandably different. Minimally, this means that the names of the things you can play with are different.

Alex Ruiz03/12/12
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Testing Formatting in Eclipse Editors: Real Unit Tests

Previously I described how I tested formatting in an Eclipse editor. Now I know that I can use INodeModelFormatter to unit-test formatting, which makes the creation of formatting tests easy, without the need for any UI during the test execution.

Alex Ruiz03/10/12
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Testing Formatting in Eclipse Editors

Even though Xtext provides a nice infrastructure for implementing editor formatters, it is also important to test that the formatter is doing what I think it is doing. I wanted my tests to be reliable, short and readable. Well…who doesn’t? :)

Ian Skerrett02/24/12
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Eclipse 4 is Coming, Are You Ready?

Juno, the next Eclipse release train, will be the first time the default Eclipse platform will be based on Eclipse 4. The Eclipse 4 team has done a great job on the compatibility layer so we are expecting a smooth transition. Eclipse 4 also presents a great opportunity for RCP developers to build even better RCP applications.

James Sugrue02/23/12
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Which JVM Language Is On Top?

It’s a well known fact that Java’s prevalence in the software development industry is encouraged by the innovation that surround the JVM, and the languages that are built on top of it.

Andrew Salvadore02/18/12
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Efficient Search And Replace in Eclipse With Regular Expressions

Using regular expressions in Eclipse to search and replace text in a file is a really useful way to make changes quickly to your code.

John Esposito02/15/12
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Ask DZ: What Features Would an Ideal IDE Have?

You may love your IDE, but even the best IDE can get better. Or you may be chugging along with a free, open-source, but less-than-perfect IDE, plugging the functionality gaps with plugins that may or may not integrate perfectly. So, DZonistas: what features would an ideal IDE have?

Rob Williams02/10/12
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Modeling, with Tools/Without

It‘s totally crazy that in 2012 there are so few good choices for modeling tools. I got encouraged for a minute today when I found a thread on Stack Overflow that included a bunch of products and I found out about SparxSystems‘ System Architect . Got all the way to downloading the trial version when I saw that it was an exe. Yes, folks, Windows only.. in 2012. Unbelievable. Hilarious that these guys are selling tools for doing MDA. Guys, where is your PIM? Oh, yeah, you don‘t have one (clearly). Your codebase is already a PSM (platform-specific model).

James Sugrue02/09/12
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Have You Adopted Java 7 Yet?

Java 7 has been available for some time now, and all indications suggest that it has a modest rate of adoption. In this poll, I'd like to find out where the Javalobby community stands with Java 7

Andreas Haufler02/08/12
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Launching and Debugging Tomcat in Eclipse

I believe that starting Tomcat as "normal" Java application provides the best debugging experience

John Esposito01/18/12
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DZone Top Article of 2011: Ask DZ - What's the best programming advice you've ever got?

For example, Travis Griggs' blog post explains some of the best OOP advice he ever received.What is the best piece of advice anyone ever gave you, and why it was so good? Maybe include some particular projects the advice helped you with, or how the advice...

Krishna Kumar01/17/12
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How Many Hours Can a Programmer Program?

I am a little late to this party where Michael Arrington says that startups mean working hard and sleeping under your desk. But I will add a few words. I read a lot of commentary about how such death marches can be counter-productive and ultimately...