Wayne Beaton's blog

I managed to speed up my puzzle generation algorithm by a few orders of magnitude. In the process, I got a free solver out of it. The Sudoku game is coming along quite nicely; not bad for about three days worth of actual effort. We’ve also wrapped up the plug-in...

Cliff Liang has translated “ A Shape Diagram Editor” into Chinese. You can read it here (assuming you can read Chinese).

It’s only every once in a while that I really get to geek out and use some of that computer science stuff I learned in university. Frankly, I quite enjoy these little opportunities (disturbingly, most of these opportunities have something to do with combinatorics and recurrence equations). Yesterday, I wrote...

The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming ( ECOOP) 2006 is being held in Nantes, France from July 3rd to 7th. Eclipse is going to be there in full force. The Eclipse Technology Exchange (eTX) Workshop will be held on July 4th. The goal of the eTX workshop is to create...

I just posted a presentation by Chris Laffra that steps through the new and noteworthy with Eclipse 3.2. You can find the presentation here. You can get Eclipse 3.2 here. And, of course, the RC3 release of Callisto is available for download and testing.

Over the past few months, I’ve heard a lot of folks talk about how many ways the ten Callisto projects can be combined. In all cases, the concensus seems to be that there are 10! (ten factorial) combinations. Or at least about that many. That’s 3,628,800 combinations. Wow! Except that...

Good news for Eclipse plug-in/RCP developers who need to embed Swing/AWT components in SWT views on the Mac! Thanks to the efforts of Apple’s JVM developers, the SWT_AWT bridge now works on the Mac. Bug#: 67384 is now marked as resolved (and is peppered with comments declaring victory). Now… I...

In comments to a recent blog entry of mine, beche-de-mer (which I believe translates to “sea-slug”), asked if I could post an example of using extension points in an Eclipse RCP application that uses Swing. I decided to oblige with this hastily cobbled together example. I added an extension point...

Another first for me! How very exciting. Somebody took the time to adapt some of their advertising materials to the Eclipse Corner Articles format and posted their contents as an article submission. I’ve decided to be in awe of the … Continue reading →

I get this question every once in a while: why is Eclipse so big? Typically, the person asking the question is thinking about the SDK. Why is the Eclipse SDK ( version 3.2RC4) 121MB? It’s a good question. The name “Eclipse SDK” provides a hint: it is the Software Development...