eclipse

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) some buttons no longer work in Eclipse 3.5. Clicking has no effect but keyboard shortcuts still work.

Yesterday I went to a "A new approach to licensing" a Profoss conference about open source licensing.

When you install and uninstall Eclipse plugins you might end up with some zombie perspectives on your perspective switcher:

"Operation in progress..." and a whole bunch of "Read timed out" errors is all I get when I try to upgrade my Eclipse installation from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2.

Next week a couple of Belgian companies are kickstarting a number of regional Eclipse user group meetings in Brussels.

Wouldn't it be great if Eclipse would keep all views in a stack sorted alphabetically? This way I wouldn't have to manually reorganize my views after opening a new one.

Eclipse has built-in support for spell checking but it only includes two platform dictionaries: English (United Kingdom) and English (United States). Fortunately it is possible to use any aspell dictionary in Eclipse.

Earlier today I was struggling with Subversion in my Eclipse installation. I'm using Subversive 2.0.4 with the SVNKit 1.5 Implementation in Eclipse 3.4. When I tried to add a directory to version control using the Team > Add to Version Control... menu item, an error occurred.

There is an interesting presentation by psychologist Barry Schwartz at TED called "The paradox of choice". He explains why people are not better off when there is too much choice.

Ubuntu includes Compiz which provides fancy desktop effects. Unfortunately it does not play very well with Java. After enabling Compiz, I have seen seen numerous empty Swing dialogs in soapUI .