I was attending the “The Productive Programmer: Mechanics” session, held by Neal Ford, at Oredev last week and I wanted to share one trick that will more or less force you to get faster when developing in Eclipse.
The Eclipse plug-in MouseFeed, written by Andriy Palamarchuk, will repeatedly nag you with what keyboard shortcuts you can [...]

I’ve been spending some time studying a tool for looking at the structure of code bases. After having tried out some of the more basic possibilities I wanted to go for the finer points and study changes between two versions of code to see what effect my changes made. This is where I realise that [...]

I had a junit test situation where I wanted to mock an Eclipse IResource instance but still be able to test a call-back implementation given as parameter to the mocked IResource.accept(IResourceVisitor visit) method. By default, mocking an interface gives you “call count” and expected return values but no code is executed. In order to test the implementation of IResourceVisitor, something more had to be done. Here is how I did it.

EclipseCon 2008 took place between the 17:th and the 20:th of March and was held in Santa Clara, California. It is an event for, maybe not that surprising, people working with Eclipse, OSGi and sub-projects built on the Eclipse platform. This year there were 1400 visitors spread out among the four event days. EclipseCon is [...]