Keep the bar green to keep the code clean

A few days ago a new feature was committed to the Eclipse repository: Terminate and Relaunch. When enabled, Eclipse will terminate all currently running processes of a launch configuration before relaunching it. This feature is particularly useful if the process to launch holds a unique system resource. For example, a...

The recently published JUnit 5 (aka JUnit Lambda) alpha release caught my interest, and while skimming through the documentation I noticed that rules are gone – as well as runners and class rules. According to the user guide, these partially competing concepts have been replaced by a single consistent extension...

Early enough to pass as an easter gift the latest update of our ergonomic Eclipse theme Clean Sheet comes in with some great enhancements. While OS X support is leading the way there are also Windows-specific improvements in the form of FlatScrollBar overlays for text editors. This post gives a...

Like a friend of mine once put it, SWTs ScrolledComposite is a nasty beast. And to some point, I do agree. This is likely the reason why there are so many questions asked about how to use this widget. But it’s not only the authors of the ScrolledComposite to blame....

In the beginning of February, the JUnit 5 (aka JUnit Lambda) team has published an alpha release. Since JUnit 4 is among the most used items in my toolbox I thought it might be worth to have a look at the next major release. I took the latest build for a spin...

Over the last months, I wrote some extensions for the Eclipse IDE that I found were missing and could be implemented with reasonable effort. The outcome is Extras for Eclipse, a collection of small extensions for the Eclipse IDE, which include a launch dialog, a JUnit status bar, a launch...

We took the 4.2 release of JGit as an opportunity to not only include the new JGit version but also spend some time on Gonsole itself. The result are some bug fixes and smaller enhancements. Most notably there is now a help command. When entered as-is, a list of known...

Long story short, my publisher has informed me about a campaign that started on December 17th and which is lasting into the new year. Packt Publishing is inviting the tech world to explore its extensive library of e-books and video courses for one amazing price. Every single e-book and video...

Hohoho! Just in time for Christmas, there is a new feature update of the Clean Sheet Eclipse design. This post gives a short overview of the most important gifts it puts underneath the Christmas tree, figuratively spoken ;-) Following a good old Eclipse tradition, now there is a New &...