Wayne Beaton's blog

I’ve been sitting on this idea for a while… I finally found a picture that I can legally use while browsing around last night. The idea is a homage to an old Bloom County cartoon by Berke Breathed. For fans of the original, Opus is back.

I don’t know if anybody else noticed this, but there is a black line in this now-famous picture of Steve Northover embracing the NetBeans girls at this year’s EclipseCon. I have to admit, that I initially found the line curious, but didn’t put too much thought into it. More recently...

In response to my Friday entry, Jeroen asked about Eclipse application design; how do you architect an Eclipse application? It’s a good question. I tend to fall back on classic patterns. As a start, I separate my application into multiple layers, employing the well known model-view-controller pattern. Typically, I’ll separate...

The Server Side Java Symposium wrapped up in Barcelona today. I sat on a keynote panel this morning titled “ 2010: A Developer’s Odyssey”. The basic idea was for the panel members to muse about what the ideal development environment will look like in four years. There was a lot...

I presented my talk on Eclipse Rich Client Platform today at The Server Side Java Symposium in Barcelona. The talk started well and I think it ended strong, but I feel like it dragged in the middle. I decided that, given that the audience expects heavy technical discussion at a...

I’m blown away by the number of times my demos have been viewed. Especially since most of them were done over the weekend. Don’t you people have lawns to mow? I’ve got another one for you… Installing and Using the Eclipse Web Tools. Again, there’s no sound. I’ve started playing...

I was on a bit of a screen demo’ing roll and built this little demonstration of how you go about installing and using the Eclipse Visual Editor. Again, there’s no sound, so don’t bother increasing your volume or yelling at the kids to quiet down. The demonstration starts from a...

I made this little demo a few weeks back. It goes through the process of installing the CDT feature and then how you use it to build your first C programme. It starts from an already-installed Eclipse workbench–either the SDK or the Platform Runtime Binaries–and uses the Callisto Discovery Site...

Beatriz Iaderoza and Grant Gayed have contributed this article to Eclipse Corner on how to use the new virtual tables and trees added with SWT 3.2.

I’ve had to set aside the Sudoku stuff for a couple of days while I did some real work. But, George Koch has been keeping busy. George sent me a Sudoku puzzle builder that he’s been working on; he’d managed to make it work with my application. His algorithm is...