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We all like to attend conferences and most people like the idea of presenting at one. But when the excitement of your submission acceptance fades, many of us sit down to face an empty PowerPoint deck and wonder where to start. Creating an effective presentation is a difficult task and it’s made even more difficult… Continue reading Creating a good presentation

In a previous post I mentioned that I had not yet found a way to use Clover to perform coverage analysis when running PDE Build and the Eclipse Testing Framework. A very kind reader (thanks Nihal!) has posted a comment outlining how to get this combo running. I have to tell you, the solution is… Continue reading Using Clover with PDE Build

In response to my last post on Eclipse RCP Trends, Chris Aniszczyk commented: Deep down inside… I think it’s a marketing issue… we have done a poor job marketing RCP in my opinion. We have brand confusion that when people hear Eclipse still they think IDE, not a rich client platform. It’s my hope that with the… Continue reading How to brand Eclipse RCP?

Running unit tests with the Eclipse Testing Framework can be a real pain. I’ve tried to provide some help in previous posts. But one thing I haven’t addressed is how to properly set up a unit test environment. The first question you might have is what is a test environment and why do I need… Continue reading Creating a test environment for the Eclipse Testing Framework

What is the job market like for Eclipse RCP developers? I’d say it’s pretty good. In my experience, people with RCP experience can demand their terms and sometimes even work remotely. There still isn’t a huge pool of developers with this expertise and demand seems to be increasing. If you’re looking for proof, check out… Continue reading Can you get a job doing Eclipse RCP?

Five years ago today a Bugzilla entry was submitted calling for the creation of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. While I’m sure the idea was bouncing around before the entry was submitted, I think of this date as the point at which the idea of RCP began to become a reality. And is it ever… Continue reading Happy Birthday RCP!

I was all set to write a blog post today on creating an RCP target platform, and then it started to snow … and snow … and snow. So I decided to take a snow day instead, which unfortunately means I spent most of the day shoveling. I did get a chance to take a… Continue reading Snow Day

Note: For those following the saga of my post titles reverting to my WordPress user name, it appears the problem is that I have an avatar image in my WordPress profile (thanks Gunnar!). WordPress is embedding the image in my RSS feed with a “title” attribute and Planet Eclipse is grabbing the string from there.… Continue reading MVP Example Code

I just finished giving a talk at Eclipse World entitled Plug-in Best Practices for Rich Client Applications. For those who attended, and anyone else who’s interested, here is a summary list of the practices discusses. Feedback is obviously welcome and much appreciated. Encapsulation Design plug-ins to maximize encapsulation. Expose packages only when forced to. Use… Continue reading Plug-in Best Practices for RCP

I was just working on my EclipseCon submission when I realized the conference is scheduled over my children’s spring break! So now I have to choose between EclipseCon and the beach. Let me think… um, I choose the beach. Seriously, though, I’ll be sad to miss the conference, and I’m just curious how many others… Continue reading EclipseCon or the beach?