Keep the bar green to keep the code clean

While Eclipse ships with a comprehensive Git tool, it seems that for certain tasks many developers switch to the command line. This gave Frank and me the idea, to start an open source project to provide a git console integration for the IDE. What happened so far during the gonsole...

While Eclipse ships with a comprehensive Git tool, it seems that for certain tasks many developers switch to the command line. This gave Rüdiger and me the idea, to start an open source project to provide a git console integration for the IDE. What happened so far during the gonsole...

While Eclipse ships with a comprehensive Git tool, it seems that for certain tasks many developers switch to the command line. This gave Frank and me the idea, to start an open source project to provide a git console integration for the IDE. What happened so far during the gonsole...

While Eclipse ships with a comprehensive Git tool, it seems that for certain tasks many developers switch to the command line. This gave Rüdiger and me the idea, to start an open source project to provide a git console integration for the IDE. Rüdiger anounced the launch of this project...

For many developers, Git has become the tool of choice when it comes to version control systems. Those that work in Eclipse are provided with a comprehensive Git tool integration. But it seems that for certain tasks the command line is favored. Some find it more convenient to type in...

Isn’t it funny how the alleged most unremarkable things can lead to controversial discussions or sometimes even heated debates with hardened fronts? I witnessed on several occasions, for example, how the usage of the Java final keyword triggered quite passionate arguments. And for an outside observer this might have looked...

For a larger project with Git, you may find yourself wanting to share code among multiple repositories. Whether it is a shared library between projects or perhaps templates and such used among multiple different products. The Git built-in answer to this problem is submodules. They allow putting a clone of...

Recently I was reading an informative post about the differences between synchronized vs ReentrantLock by Javin Paul1. He emphasises on the advantages of the latter, but does not withhold some downsides, which are related to the cumbersome try-finally block needed for proper usage. While agreeing with his statements I brooded...

There is a saying that a fool with a tool is still a fool. But how to use a tool most efficiently is not always obvious to me. Because of this I typically spend some time to check out new playgrounds1 that promise to increase my work speed without impairing...