I've been attending an excellent lab by Sune Simonsen which was about how to create a Javascript twitter client. The lab utilizes the maven-lab-plugin, which can be used to create…
The Facebook Test Java API framework has been updated. There are two additions to the API and one bugfix: Bugfix for NPE when calling facebookStore.createTestUser(false,"..."). Added possibility of using a…
Usually when I have a lot of emails in my inbox, I tend to skim most of them and then mark interesting mails as being unread so that I can…
When building a desktop application, the target audience usually expects an executable to when launching it. If the application is written in Java you have the options to create a…
I've had a really annoying problem where the cursor in Gmail disappears completely when composing mails. Being used to have a visual hint of where the next character is supposed…
The Google Maps Javascript API v3 provides overlays for drawing shapes, such as Polygons, Circles, Polylines and Rectangles. The shapes are not implicitly interactive in the respect that you cannot…
Here's a list of tips and tricks to make your OS X Terminal experience a bit more effective. Quick access to the Terminal In order not to be disctracted from…
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X and "Growl lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen". The about page shows an example of what…
As Feroz and Aleadam commented on my previous post, it is now possible to copy test users from one application to another in the Facebook Graph API. This functionality is…
Since november 2010 you may create test user accounts on Facebook for your application, so that you may test your application without creating dummy accounts and possibly break the Facebook…
I've got 3 different types of Mac computers at home, running Snow Leopard, and on each computer I've had the need to print stuff using my HP Laserjet 1020 model.…
This article describes how Dia can be used to generate diagrams for the Asciidoc documentation toolkit. For those of you that have never worked with these products, I have added…
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…
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…