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I sit in my room at the Pact camp. This camp is a significant conference about people (mostly white as it turns out) who adopt people of color. One of the issues that is discussed quite a bit is the … Continue reading →

I see all of the platform UI bugs and https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=319514 caught my attention and I have made several comments on it. I thought I would share my observations and suggestions at this point, being a member of the Eclipse community. Observations: … Continue reading →

I have an RCP application that uses p2 and needs to run on all of our platforms (this uses 3.4.2).  Everything was great until Vista came along.  On Vista when going to the Software Updates… dialog it gets the “not … Continue reading →

Just spent a couple of hours debugging one of these and thought I would write it up in hopes that it makes things better. My use case is that I’m calling my application from an API which means I’m dynamically … Continue reading →

I was looking at this: /* * Non-Javadoc. Method declared on Viewer. */ public void refresh() { refresh(getRoot()); } I hit F3 when Viewer was selected and it took me there.  It appeared to do it because it matched the … Continue reading →

I was just talking with my wife and told her that I only had a couple of more sets of warnings to go: her: “What are you talking about?” me: “In the Common Navigator.” her: “You don’t have warnings, that … Continue reading →

I was inspired by Jeff’s recent post about contributing and decided to put an example of using a SourceViewer with Annotations (which took me a while to figure out) in the Platform Text Wiki.  As I’m not an expert in … Continue reading →

I just noticed that in the JUnit view when you select a test that’s failing it (now) goes to the line in the test case that has the failure. This is such a nice feature and it’s one example of … Continue reading →

I was just doing some work on my product’s code to import XSD definitions, which I have not touched in probably a couple of years and I ran across this comment (in my code): // This is the effective simple … Continue reading →