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Here is my review of Ganymede, for those who missed it: Eclipse Ganymede Review
Showing posts with label ganymede. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ganymede. Show all posts
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Eclipse Shirt Is Here!
FedEx dropped off the much anticipated Eclipse t-shirt today and I must say, it looks fab! I got it as a result of taking part in the Ganymede Around the World Contest. My coder friends are going to be so jealous!
I've posted a few pictures of the t-shirt here. Enjoy!
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Here is my review of Ganymede, for those who missed it: Eclipse Ganymede Review
Here is my review of Ganymede, for those who missed it: Eclipse Ganymede Review
Friday, August 01, 2008
Eclipse Shirt Is Coming!
I finally received the following email from Lynn Gayowski, of the Eclipse Foundation, about the shirt they promised for taking part in the Ganymede Around the World Contest:
Here is my review of Ganymede, for those who missed it: Eclipse Ganymede Review
Thank you for submitting a review of the Eclipse release to the Ganymede Around the World contest. We have an Eclipse shirt for you! Please send me your:I have sent them my details and am looking forward to getting my shirt. I will be posting pictures here as soon as it arrives, so come back soon! Better still, subscribe to my feed! Related post:
1) Name
2) Shirt size (men’s small, medium, large, X-large, 2X-large or women’s small, medium, large)
3) Mailing Address
4) Phone Number (Fedex requires this for deliveries)
The contest closed yesterday, so all blog entries have been passed on to a panel of judges and we hope to have the winners of the Eclipse jackets and conference pass announced in a few weeks. Thank you for participating and best of luck in the contest. Regards,
Lynn Gayowski
Marketing Events Manager
Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
P (613) 224-9461 ext. 234
F (613) 224-5172
lynn.gayowski@eclipse.org
www.eclipse.org
Here is my review of Ganymede, for those who missed it: Eclipse Ganymede Review
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Eclipse Ganymede
Eclipse Ganymede is the annual release of Eclipse projects; this year including 23 projects. Some highlights of the release include the new p2 provisioning platform, new Equinox security features, new Ecore modeling tools, support for SOA and much more.
I have been using the new Eclipse Ganymede release for about two weeks now and think its time to write a review and share some of my experiences with the rest of the developer community. On the whole, I think the new release is as snappy as previous versions and brings some welcome improvements. Here are some of the features that I really like in this release:
Breadcrumbs:
The editor now displays a breadcrumb navigation bar showing the path to the current file. You can easily access the project and package structure as well as the individual classes, fields and methods from the bar itself. I really like this feature because I no longer have to keep my Package Explorer and Outline views open, thus saving on precious screen estate. Enhanced Hover:
In the previous version, you had to use the awkward keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+1 on top of an Error or Warning to get the Quick Fix options. In Ganymede, all you have to do is hover over the problem and it pops up a window with links to the options. Great! Highlight Read/Write Variables:
A small but useful addition to this release is that Mark Occurrences (Alt+Shift+O) now marks read and write accesses with different colours. Previously, Eclipse offered the ability to highlight all occurrences of a variable but now it distinguishes between read and writes for you. Call Hierarchy for Fields and Types:
This allows you to find all the members which access the field (for read or write) and the constructors of a type. Previously, you could only find callers of a method. Support for External Class Folders
Class folders located outside the workspace (external) can now be added to the build path. Previously, I had to build a jar file and then add it using "Add External JARs" so this is a welcome improvement! You can even add other kinds of zip archives to the build path e.g. RAR files. Performance:
To be honest, I haven't noticed any increase or decrease in either the start-up time or interaction with the user interface. However, there has reportedly been a lot of internal improvement to the JDT compiler so that compilation can now be spread across multiple cores rather than being able to utilise only one. This should speed up build times. There are still many more things for me to try out. In particular I would really like to try out the Test and Performance Tools Platform Project. Got your own experiences with Ganymede? Share them in the comments. For more details:
What's New in 3.4 (JDT)
Learn more about Ganymede
The editor now displays a breadcrumb navigation bar showing the path to the current file. You can easily access the project and package structure as well as the individual classes, fields and methods from the bar itself. I really like this feature because I no longer have to keep my Package Explorer and Outline views open, thus saving on precious screen estate. Enhanced Hover:
In the previous version, you had to use the awkward keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+1 on top of an Error or Warning to get the Quick Fix options. In Ganymede, all you have to do is hover over the problem and it pops up a window with links to the options. Great! Highlight Read/Write Variables:
A small but useful addition to this release is that Mark Occurrences (Alt+Shift+O) now marks read and write accesses with different colours. Previously, Eclipse offered the ability to highlight all occurrences of a variable but now it distinguishes between read and writes for you. Call Hierarchy for Fields and Types:
This allows you to find all the members which access the field (for read or write) and the constructors of a type. Previously, you could only find callers of a method. Support for External Class Folders
Class folders located outside the workspace (external) can now be added to the build path. Previously, I had to build a jar file and then add it using "Add External JARs" so this is a welcome improvement! You can even add other kinds of zip archives to the build path e.g. RAR files. Performance:
To be honest, I haven't noticed any increase or decrease in either the start-up time or interaction with the user interface. However, there has reportedly been a lot of internal improvement to the JDT compiler so that compilation can now be spread across multiple cores rather than being able to utilise only one. This should speed up build times. There are still many more things for me to try out. In particular I would really like to try out the Test and Performance Tools Platform Project. Got your own experiences with Ganymede? Share them in the comments. For more details:
What's New in 3.4 (JDT)
Learn more about Ganymede
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