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Here’s a great time way to kill an hour… Add a table to your view and neglect to set widths on the columns. Hilarity ensues. Pebkac.

I’ve built two tables over the past two days and both of them are pretty expensive to populate. Leaving the user waiting while you run off and fetch all the data before you can display the table is bad form. To keep in your users’ good graces, consider using the...

The Eclipse workbench contains a collection of stacked views and editors. Some views change their appearance based on the active editor. The Outline view is a good example of this: it changes its appearance (sometimes quite dramatically) when a different editor is activated. The workbench provides a handy mechanism that...

Hey all you folks out there doing Eclipse stuff… The call for participation for OSCON, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, to be held July 21-25 in Portland, Oregon ends on February 4th. Last year’s conference was a lot of fun and they love the Eclipse content! Submit your proposals today...

Bill Kayser has written an interesting summary of his experience migrating a 600,000 line multi-tier swing based application to run on Equinox. He begins the story with a very good explanation of OSGi as the platform for applications with a service oriented architecture. It is interesting to see the benefits...

Michael Cote from Redmonk has been busily producing a series of videos about Equinox, OSGi and the different Eclipse projects that are building on top of Equinox. If you are new to Equinox and OSGi, this series should provide a great introduction. Video 1 – Jeff McAffer introduces Equinox and...

If you’re building plug-ins for the Eclipse platform, you’re more than likely going to need the selection service. The selection service, as you might have guess from the name, takes care of selections in the workbench. Selections happen all over the place. Selecting a file in the navigator results in...

CNET just announced their CES ‘ Best of Show‘ awards. Bug Labs won in the Emerging Technology category. As I previously mentioned and Bjorn pointed out, Bug Labs uses Eclipse and OSGi for their SDK and runtime. Congratulations to Bug Labs! What a great endorsement of their technology.

Cities hosting DemoCamps: 31 Eclipse-based demos: 145 Total attendees: 760 Longest running event: Poznan Poland over 2 days Most Attendees: 61 in Sofia, Bulgaria Number of NetBeans evangelist registered: 1 in Austin (not sure if Gregg attended) Opportunities to meet other Eclipse enthusiasts: unlimited Thank you to all the organizers...

By popular demand we have added a Top Contributor award as a category to the Eclipse Community Awards. The key feature of a Top Contributor is that they make their contributions due to their passion for making Eclipse a better community. In general, no one is paying them for the...