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Helios: How to Prepare Your Eclipse for RCP/Plugin Development
Some RCP-newbies are having difficulties to correctly setup their environment for RCP/Plugin development. Most of them are familiar with Eclipse but not using the Eclipse for RCP/RAP developers package. The problem is sneaky because everything is working except that you don’t get proposals when adding child to the extension. See the following video. How to …
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Survey: Reading a book is faster than reading an iBook
I don’t really care about the survey since I read more book on iPhone (yes, you read it correctly!) compared to paper book nowadays. I guess the iPhone has advantage that it never more than 10 meter from my side.
Photoshop CS5 Content Aware
I’m still amazed how content aware on how Photoshop CS5 works. Following image is my last example how it removed the water hose on the background. Original image: After the water hose removed: Amazing! Note that I only deleted the water hose with Content Aware once and did nothing else to the original image.
Guava: Using ListenableFuture
Google Guava has many interesting classes which we can use on our application. The ones from collection package have been already used by many developers and this blog has tutorial on how to use the computing map. I want to move to the other package. This one is com.google.common.util.concurrent, specifically I want to introduce ListenableFuture. …
Introduction to Eclipse Command
Command in Eclipse represents task. Anything can be a task. In the example in the picture above, I used ‘delete’ as example. A command can have several handlers, which are active on different conditions. In the previous example, I used three handlers which active depend on the type of the object. Commands can be triggered …
SyntaxHighlighter 3
New version of SyntaxHighlighter has been releases! Among other things, I like its new copy features and how one can just select code partially to copy. Love it! Let’s wait ’til someone releases the WordPress plugin for it.
What is Eclipse-RCP-based Application?
To get the answer of that question, we need to take a look at the global architecture of an Eclipse-RCP-based application. This picture below can summarize the information. SWT is Standard Widget Toolkit for Java. Developed by IBM and later by Eclipse Foundation, the purpose of SWT is to give native performance and look to …
OWC Data Doubler for MacBook Pro
A nice solution for us that don’t use optical drive that much but would appreciate a place for second hard drive on MacBook Pro. This should be a solution also for they who want to have SSD on the laptop without removing the old hard drive.
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