My Nokia E71 with the excellent keyboard should be a good mobile blogging solution. I am looking for a good blogging client. I use WordPress for my blog so I guess most clients should work with it. Here are a few I found: MoPress – This is a J2ME based client. I could not find [...]
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Eclipse Tip: Java Compare Editor
In Eclipse 3.5 there are a few significant enhancements. Now it looks and feels more like the Java Editor. It supports Content Assist, Code Formating, Hyperlinking, Java Doc on Hover and Quick Outline. Code Assist Code Hyperlinking Quick Outline JavaDoc on Hover
WebKit for SWT
Genuitec has released WebKit for SWT. It is a embeddable WebKit based browser for Java. It is an SWT component so it can be added to any Eclipse RCP/SWT applications. They also plan to release a Swing based component later. Cool. WebKit for SWT (ver. 0.5) is an embeddable Java™ WebKit browser component developed by [...]
Eclipse Tip: Organize Imports and Java Import Style
Default import style in EclipseChange it to suite your style How do you import class in Java? Do you import each class explicitly or use the wildcard character to import the complete package? There are aesthetic pros and cons with either approach. There is no performance impact with either approach. Eclipse provides a useful shortcut [...]
Eclipse FireFly: Mobile RIA IDE
There is a new Eclipse project proposal: FireFly. Here is its introduction: The FireFly DevKit project intends to develop an extensible mobile web developer kit for use in creating and testing traditional and next-generation mobile RIA applications. The new generation of high-speed data networks and powerful mobile internet devices such as smartphones equipped with web [...]
Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight
Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight, yes you read that right. Microsoft is funding the Eclipse Tools for Microsoft Silverlight project and it is being developed by Soyatec. Soyatec is a Elipse founding member and the developer of tools like eUML2, eBPMN and eFace. They already have a build for download. At the moment the download [...]
E71 App: YouTube J2ME Edition
The iPhone and iPod Touch have a nice YouTube app. I wanted to see if there is a similar app for the Nokia E71. There are a few, of course, EmTube, Mobitubia and the official YouTube client. I could not get to EmTube site. Mobitubia seems too flashy. So I installed the official version. Looks [...]
Eclipse Plugin: Wicked Shell
A lot of Java development involves an IDE and a Shell window or two. The Shell is Command Prompt (cmd.exe) in my case as I develop on Windows. This cool Eclipse plugin reduces one window in my task bar: Wicked Shell. It just puts the OS’s default shell, bash for Linux and cmd.exe for Windows, [...]
Eclipse Tip: Java Editor Breadcrumb Navigation Bar
One new feature of Eclipse 3.4 is the Java editor’s Breadcrumb Navigation Bar. This can be enabled with the keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+B or using a tool bar button. Like the name suggests it provides a breadcrumb path for the current element in the editor. This is kind of like the location bar in Windows Explorer [...]
Eclipse Tip: Custom Surround With
Previously I have posted the following tips: Eclipse Tip: Surround WithEclipse Tip: Remove Surrounding Statement I thought that I will add to it a little bit. In Eclipse you can now add your own “Surround With” templates. Let us say we need to surround a piece of code with comments like: Select the code and [...]