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Suresh Krishna03/13/08
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Eclipse RCP Case Studies

Many of us in the developer and technology community know the Eclipse as a Platform. On the other side, its interesting to see the business users and the corporate perspective on Eclipse. Many are still not aware of the fact that Eclipse be entirely stripped...

Matt Raible03/12/08
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Updated Maven Integration for Eclipse

If you're a Maven user that prefers Eclipse, you might want to checkout the new Maven Integration Plugin for Eclipse 0.9.0. Euxx has a couple blog posts talking about the new features - looks like pretty cool stuff to me.

Suresh Krishna03/09/08
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The Pillars Of Eclipse - Eclipse as a Platform

Eclipse, the ubiquitous platform, has survived another challenge by releasing Europa and the incredible download numbers speak for it’s success.

James Sugrue03/07/08
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Behind the Scenes: What to Expect from the RCP Training Series

The RCP Training Series kicks off this summer, covering a wide range of locations. To get more insight into what to expect from the training, I talked with Dr Jörn Weigle representing WeigleWilczek, a member of the Eclipse Training Alliance.

David Kyle03/06/08
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Cheat Sheet Editor Improvements in Eclipse 3.3

Eclipse Europa (3.3) has a new Cheat Sheet Editor which is a vast improvement over the XML editor used in the Callisto (3.2) release.

David Kyle03/05/08
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Showcase: Eclipse in the Oil and Gas Industry

I decided to show off some of what we've been working on at Kelman Technologies.

James Sugrue03/03/08
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Mylyn - A Habit for Highly Effective Developers

Over the weekend, I read Steven Covey's excellent book - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. It's an interesting read with principles and habits that can be applied to many aspects of your life.There's one habit in particular that you can apply...

Suresh Krishna03/01/08
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How To Choose Between Eclipse Help and Cheat Sheets

Which one is better for your documentation needs, Eclipse Help or Cheat Sheets? Have you ever gotten into this discussion with your boss or teammates?

David Green02/28/08
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Hacking SWT: Reading GMail in an RCP App

Talking to Mik at Tasktop about what it will take to bring his revolutionary Mylyn-based product to the mac platform, Mik pointed me to an issue with the way the Safari-based SWT browser widget accesses GMail. Though Safari is a supported browser for GMail,...

Tomas Kramar02/28/08
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Effective Eclipse: Custom Templates

The same way I try to avoid the redundancy in my code, the same way I try to avoid the redundancy in my writing. I am lazy and templates do the most writing for me. Eclipse comes bundled with predefined templates, but they are too general and not all of them...

James Sugrue02/28/08
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All Work And No Play - The Lighter Side Of Eclipse

You don't need to confine yourself to all the serious stuff when using Eclipse. There's a number of plugins available that have nothing to do with programming, but are useful for programmers. Eclipse can be turned into an entertainment center with things like...

James Sugrue02/26/08
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Plugin and Play - Integrating YouTube with Eclipse

The following article describes how to create a YouTube search plugin for Eclipse, that can be integrated into your everyday instance of the IDE. In this article you'll learn how to create a plugin using the Plugin Development Environment and how to use some...

Joachim Ritter02/25/08
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Sprint Nextel Goes Live with Mobile OSGi

This week’s news from Sprint Nextel marks a cornerstone of OSGi adoption: Sprint has released its first developer version of the Titan platform, an OSGi based next generation mobile Java stack. Titan was announced on the last Application Developer Program...

Tomas Kramar02/22/08
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Effective Eclipse: Don't write the code, generate it

I hope that we will never be able to generate applications. I would be without a job then and you probably too. But what we can generate are various repetitive and boring pieces of code.

Chris Aniszczyk02/21/08
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Help Translate Eclipse!

Eclipse has a new project called Babel that serves the purpose of allowing the community to help translate Eclipse. If you look at relative progress in terms of translation (the top 4), the French are doing really well:Translation Progress French ...