There have been others before, but now there is a new stalking button. After installing Eclipse 3.4M6 and WTP 3.0M6, each and every perspective has a new icon called "Open JavaScript Type". It is probably an interesting function, but I doubt it is interesting enough to appear in every perspective.

I have finally started working on a new feature of the Eclipse XPS plug-in: use the LEDs of a Dell XPS laptop to show the results of an Ant build.

A little over two months ago I became self-employed. A lot of the work that I do involves open source and most of it is done inside Eclipse: java coding, PHP development, version control, build automation and so on.

I decided to make a donation to the Eclipse Foundation to show my appreciation for the excellent tools, the smart people that develop them and the nice community around this all.

Commercial software packages that are based on open source components often have a hard time following the release cycles of their underlying components. Basically this means you end up using the 'previous version' without the latest fixes and enhancements.

Yesterday I checked out the new Apache Tika project. The project (which is still in incubation) is able to extract metadata from various file formats. The API is pretty straightforward.