Posts Tagged ‘Eclipse’

10 Eclipse Navigation Shortcuts Every Java Programmer Should Know « The Curious Schemer

August 9th, 2009

A very handy guide to Eclipse keyboard shortcuts: 10 Eclipse Navigation Shortcuts Every Java Programmer Should Know « The Curious Schemer.

It always amazes me how dependent everyone is on the mouse, even old school Un*x programmers. For better or worse, I love the keyboard and keyboard shortcuts — it is easier to do something in the IDE if I can keep my fingers close to the keys, you know, how the code is typed in. This article, from The Curious Schemer, is a great list of keyboard shortcuts. The comments have even more. Do yourself a favor and invest a few minutes learning these — they’ll save you a lot of time in the long run.

Google’s appengine supports Java now!

April 11th, 2009

Google just rolled out Java support for their AppEngine, which previously only supported Python. This is great news since it opens the whole AppEngine to Java programmers (or at least those of us who know Java better than Python;). They say it’s an early release, but it’s a step in the right direction!

I’ve downloaded the Eclipse plugin, installed it, and generated both an GWT and plain JSP for my site. Creation was easy, uploading was a snap, and running it worked well. There are only two complaints/notes:

1. Installation of the Eclipse plugin froze the Eclipse app twice. I killed the Eclipse process and re-tried the installation. It worked the third time. No problems since.

2. Versioning is weak. I tried to upload a new app and label it version 1.1, but the upload failed. It only worked when I provided an integer value. Seems silly that versions have to be integers. Oh well…

Otherwise, works great. I look forward to learning the new features.

New Livescribe SmartPen SDK released (0.8)

November 14th, 2008

Livescribe just delivered version 0.8 of their Pulse SmartPen SDK (http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/DeveloperOverviewPage). Looks very slick…

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