The REAL way to make Eclipse run faster on Ubuntu

If you are still one of those people who are frustrated with the crawling speed of eclipse IDE (especially after…

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10 ideas to improve Eclipse IDE usability

Few years ago, we had a mini IDE war inside our office. It happened between Eclipse and Netbeans supporters. Fortunately,…

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See Your Solr Cache Sizes: Eclipse Memory Analyzer

Solr uses different caches to prevent too much IO access and calculations during requests. When indexing doesn’t happen too frequently…

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Efficient Code Coverage with Eclipse

There is a saying that a fool with a tool is still a fool. But how to use a tool…

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Slim Down SWT FormLayout Usage

Always on the quest for efficiency I reconsidered the usability of SWT FormLayout lately. Although it is one of my…

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Add Java 8 support to Eclipse Kepler

Want to add Java 8 support to Kepler? Java 8 has not yet landed in our standard download packages. But…

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Developers Are Lazy (And How To Use That To Your Advantage With Eclipse)

As I sat down to write this blog post, I thought through how many years I’ve been developing, and how…

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Official Eclipse Support for Java(TM) 8

Dani Megert, the project lead for the Java development tools (JDT) project made this announcement earlier today: The Eclipse top-level…

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Clean SWT Listener Notifcations with SWTEventHelper

Writing tests for SWT based UIs often requires to notify widget listeners programmatically. Unfortunately the code to create, initialize and…

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