A diff a day keeps the bugs away

Aug 17, 2016

Parting out eclipse

Whether your preferred IDE is Eclipse, IntelliJ, or a magnetic needle and a steady hand, it’s undeniable that Eclipse has many valuable components. Want to parse and analyze Java sourcecode? Easy. Want to tinker with building some kind of automatic refactoring tool? Eclipse has low-level and…

P2, Maven, and Gradle

If you work with eclipse, then you know all about p2. It’s an ambitious piece of software with broad scope, and it gives the eclipse ecosystem several unique features (bundle pools!). The downside of its ambition and scope is its complexity — it can be daunting for newcomers to use. Based…

A library by any other version

When you release an open source library, it’s extremely satisfying when the very first people start to use it. It’s the purest possible validation of your work on its merits.