Pete FreitagOctober 29, 2009
Viewing Images with Eclipse
Here's a quick tip for Eclipse users. When you double click on an image file in eclipse it typically opens up whatever program your OS has associated with that file type. You can configure eclipse to view images in the editor pane fairly easily, without installing any plugins.
February 07, 2007
Tip for Viewing Images in Eclipse
Here's a quick tip for those using Eclipse / CFEclipse, and would like to view images in your project from within eclipse.Go to Window » Preferences in the Eclipse menu. Then expand General » Editors and click on File Associations.
November 02, 2006
Happy Birthday Eclipse - 5!
The Eclipse Project Turns 5 years old on Nov 7th. Go over to their birthday site and send a greeting.
September 09, 2005
RDS Security Problems?
Erki Esken posted a comment on Ben Forta's blog asking if the source to the RDS plugin for Eclipse would be released. Forta's response was:"But, my gut feel is that it would not be a good idea to fully expose the source for RDS as that may create potential security problems.
July 21, 2005
RDS Plugin for Eclipse?
Tim Buntel posted a message to the CFEClipse users mailing list with the subject, Does that mean you're working on RDS support?Generally, we've found that folks who want "RDS support" are really looking for 2 things; remote server file system access and database connectivity (e.g.
July 06, 2005
Eclipse 3.1
Another thing I missed last week, was that the Eclipse foundation released Eclipse 3.1.I have been using the beta's of 3.1 since they first came out, because I am working on a project that uses all the new features in Java 1.5 (generics, new for loops, enums, new api's, etc.
July 06, 2005
Eclipse 3.1 Million Download Challenge
The Eclipse community is doing a million download challenge for Eclipse 3.1. Over 40 Eclipse community members have agreed to pledge time or money to a charity every day from the time they reach 1 million downloads up to 60 days from the release.
June 07, 2005
Tim O'Reilly on Zorn
Tim O'Reilly has a blog post on Zorn - Macromedia's Flash tool that will run on Eclipse. Tim is on the Board of Directors for Macromedia...
May 12, 2005
Howto keep Eclipse Plugins between upgrades
The Javalobby has a great article called Eclipse: Managing Multiple Eclipse Installations that shows you how you can keep one plugins directory and have it work for multiple eclipse installs.Since I do a lot of Java 1.5 development, I have to use Eclipse 3.
May 12, 2005
Fonts for Programmers
Courier New is the standard monospace fixed width font used by programmers. If your looking to try something new, I just found a list of fonts for programmers. Right now I'm trying out Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
April 26, 2005
Eclipse Spell Checker Plugin
I just tried out an eclipse plugin for spell checking. It works with the CFEclipse plugin, Java, JavaScript, JavaProperties, XML, HTML, JSP, and PHP.While the dictionary could use some work, the plugin is pretty good.
Just download it and unzip to your eclipse directory.
March 10, 2005
Some handy Eclipse Keyboard Shotrcuts
I found some handy keyboard shortcuts for working with Eclipse (these are actually part of the general text editor component, so they work with pretty much any editor including the cfeclipse editor)Alt+Up - Swap the current line with the line above it
Alt+Down - Swap the
February 28, 2005
Borland takes Strategic Developer role in Eclipse Project
Borland is taking a bigger stake in the organization it helped found, joining the Eclipse Foundation's board of directors as a strategic developer, officials will announce in a press conference Monday at EclipseCon 2005 in Burlingame, California.
February 10, 2005
onEclipse - improving productivity of eclipse users
I just came across the site onEclipse a site devoted to improving the productivity of users of the Eclipse platform.Check out the news page which has an rss feed
September 29, 2004
CFEclipse Call For Features
The folks at the CFEclipse project have asked users to submit feature requests and vote for enhancements.In order to find out what you lovely CFE users want, we are planning to
call a feature vote.
Our Issue Tracker (http://cfeclipse.tigris.
