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HOW TO: Eclipse Strife (bonus: We are the trollz!)
I was just catching up on some Eclipse Planet reading while waiting for a build, and came across a fun little dialog between Mike Milinkovich and Bjorn Freeman-Benson. Essentially there is some discussion is to...
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HOW TO: JFace EditingSupport for Custom Tables
Stan Lee in Spider Man taught us that, "With great power there must also come -- great responsibility!" I think about that quote when working on Eclipse plug-ins, only it changes in my head to...
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HOW TO: Concierge Tools for Eclipse (CTE) Update Available
Mainly a defect fix release, a new version 1.1.0 of CTE is now available. There were several minor classpath resolution issues that caused some headaches, and caused often restarts of Eclipse to get many bundles...
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DEVELOPMENT: Editors, State, and steb 0.2.0
It seems that some Eclipse editors just don't like being instantiated out of the blue. Some editors store global state and other things in a project and expect to get access to that project. So...
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DEVELOPMENT: Version 1.3 of Dragonfly, the BUG SDK: Best Release Ever
We released the latest version of the BUG SDK today. This has a number of improvements over the last version, and it's our best version ever. I highly recommend upgrading to this version as there...
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PROJECTS: Getting the files into Eclipse: steb
"The files are inside the computer.." is one of my favorite quotes from the movie Zoolander. However, it's not that easy...there is a probelm. I keep finding myself in the middle of some serious...
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DEVELOPMENT: BitBake Commander 0.6.8 - Installers!
A new release of OpenEmbedded Tools for Eclipse is available that adds the ability to install a flavor of OpenEmbedded via a simple GUI wizard as shown below. Currently available install profiles are OpenEmbedded dev...
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PROJECTS: BitBake Commander 0.6.5
Another bug fix and feature update for BitBake Commander is available. Notable differences:BitBake variable evaluation now happens on a per-recipe bases rather than just the global configuration. This means variables like $PN now contain valid...
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DEVELOPMENT: OpenEmbedded Tools for Eclipse 0.6.0
This is the first release of BitBake Commander that I think is truely useful to the embedded developer. Check out the 16Mb ogg screencast to get an overview of interesting workflow options that Eclipse and...
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DEVELOPMENT: Jigsaw coming to a phone near you?
Here at the M3DD conference in San Jose, I was suprised to learn that Project Jigsaw, or the latest Java modularity effort, was mentioned in a presentation by Florian Tournier regarding PhoneME's 2009 road map. ...
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DEVELOPMENT: Relicensing with Eclipse
Several times in the past I've looked for some kind of Eclipse plugin that would let me add and change Copyright and License headers of my source files. The problem was that the typical search...
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HOW TO: R-OSGi, or how to call OSGi services remotely: Part I
When learning OSGi and discovering the power and simplicity of the service registry, a common thought is "Oh, I want to use this service remotely...how can I do that?" And, well, currently the answer is...
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DEVELOPMENT: OpenEmbedded Tools for Eclipse (OTE) 0.4.3 Live
After several weeks of eating my own dogfood, several critical bug fixes in the core file functionality of OTE have been addressed. Reading through the BitBake python code is not that bad actually, and the...
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DEVELOPMENT: SWTBot for Eclipse UI Testing
Unit testing is an important part of any development cycle. It's especially useful when you're trying to track down a defect in unfamiliar code. When I get a defect report from the QA team, it...
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DEVELOPMENT: BitBake Commander in Action
I have been holding off on doing any OE/Poky work until I was able to use OTE to do it. Well, I was finally able to use the recipe editor and the console integration to...
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DEVELOPMENT: OpenEmbedded Tools for Eclipse 0.4.0
A quick release that adds minimal console support. Essentially a console (terminal) can be associated with each OE/Poky project in a workspace, and some simple bitbake integration allows one-click building of packages. Note this is...
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DEVELOPMENT: OpenEmbedded Tools for Eclipse
Alex and I have been working on some plugins to let us use our favorite IDE with our favorite embedded Linux distro builder. We now have some basic functionality in place that will allow minimal...
