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I hope this list of my favorite Eclipse shortcuts will help your workflow become more productive. The shortcuts are divided into the following areas: Navigation General Purpose Editing Java Editor Plug-in Development Workbench Navigation Switching between Open Editors Ctrl + E—Display a filterable list of open editors. Ctrl … Read More

Hi, this is Wayne, one of the Genuitec founders. This is a special week as Genuitec celebrates its 15th anniversary. Its been an awesome personal and team adventure serving the Java, web and mobile developer communities with our programming tools and tool management platform. From day #1 our … Read More

As a Web App developer, a typical scenario is to implement a log framework such as log4j (Java) or log4php (PHP) into an app. But what if your boss wants to keep track of each error that several apps are throwing across different servers, all in a single log … Read More

Microservices: A “new” conceptIn the last couple of years, we have been hearing a lot about microservices. There is already a lot of valuable (and also not so much) content regarding defining the term and the general concept behind it. The definition is not always enough to fully … Read More

I love my job as a programmer, but like most jobs, it can have a downside. Sometimes I really dread having to tell someone what I do for a living. The story I am about to tell you is 100% true.When driving home one night, I was stopped … Read More

Getting old really sucks. Running is my stress relief. It is also my feeble and losing battle with time. My 45 min running route gives me a 2 mile reprieve onto the soft sand along the beach. With summertime upon us, kids dart in and out of the … Read More

Recently I had to optimize a method that was bottlenecked in one of our applications. Among other things, the method I was optimizing created a file based on a String concatenation. This is a very common task that usually takes a couple of lines along with a try … Read More

In previous articles, I’ve discussed how to create custom XML bindings and custom editing UI for an editor based on the great Eclipse Sapphire framework. Now let’s take a look at another aspect of editor UI creation, customizing standard actions like Add or Browse, or creating completely custom … Read More

I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.— Thomas Alva EdisonThis comes as no surprise, but not every idea will be a winner in the marketplace. We all fail sometimes, for a variety of reasons, some within our control and some not. And it’s … Read More

What is a Linter? Linters are Code Quality Inspectors, which work by basically parsing your code. They check JavaScript code for common mistakes and discrepancies without running the application.You can plug linters into your code editor or copy and paste your code into any standard online linting tool. … Read More