Update Tycho to 0.12.0
Tycho, the new Maven base Eclipse build system, was recently accepted as an Eclipse project. In the latest, 0.12.0 release, the namespace was updated from org.sonatype.tycho to org.eclipse.tycho. This...
View ArticleBelgian Eclipse DemoCamp on May 31st in Lier (near Antwerp)
The Belgian Eclipse DemoCamp on May 31st is approaching soon. Do not forget to indicate if you are attending via the LinkedIn event page so that we know how much beer to chill. You can check the...
View ArticleA view on the complexity of your Xtext ecore model
By default Xtext generates its own ecore model from your grammar. The rules governing this process are not extremely complex but still can interact in surprising ways.read more
View ArticleBuild Eclipse documentation from wikitext with Maven Tycho
For Sigasi 2.0 we decided to write all documentation in the textile wiki markup language. With the Mylyn Wikitext plugin, textile files can be converted in lots of different output formats such as...
View ArticleHow to set the update description of RCP product updates
Thanks to Ian Bull on Eclipse Con Europe last week, I finally found out how to set the update description for an RCP product update. This was a tiny annoyance that has been itching since the first...
View ArticleXtext resource caching: loading resources 5 times faster
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it (George Santayana). I've always felt ambivalent about that quote. History never ever repeats itself exactly. In computer science on the...
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Creating e-books with Eclipse
In November last year, I attended a very interesting session of Torkild Resheim about creating e-books in Eclipse at EclipseCon Europe in Nuremburg. Torkild demonstrated a new plugin he developed that...
View ArticleVHDL generation from Yakindu state charts with Xtend
Last month I was introduced to Yakindu, an open-source-toolkit for model-driven development of embedded systems. One component of the Yakindu toolkit supports the graphical development of finite-state...
View ArticleUltraEdit key bindings for Eclipse
Sigasi has just released a new plugin for Eclipse: the UltraEdit Key BindingsIt is a keyboard scheme (like the well-known Emacs keyboard schema) that mimics the keyboard bindings of the popular...
View ArticleEclipse Marker Manager
Did you ever want to suppress warnings in Eclipse? For Java, there is the @SuppressWarnings directive, but what to do for other programming languages?Sigasi is planning a new Eclipse plugin, called the...
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