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RCP Workspaces
An “Eclipse workspace” is basically a directory where all your metadata preference files are stored (Eclipse specific files, there’s a lot of them). It’s also where your projects are stored, your source files, jars, and so on. It’s useful to have all of this one one place, and Eclipse itself requires it or your workspace [...]
Glazed Lists + SWT Tables == True
If you haven’t heard about Glazed Lists until now, it’s about time you do, because it’s probably the last tables and grid sorting/filtering API you will ever need. It will also be the last time you rip your hair out when someone asks you for a multi-sort-multi-thread-asynchronously-updated-filtered-unique-table (which happens all the time, right?). From here [...]
Managing Experienced Developers
First, the mandatory Dilbert cartoon… Having worked in many companies over the years there are a few things I know better than my managers, and the longer I’m in this business the more frustrated I get when things are simply not working the way they should due to bad management. If I as a senior [...]
