Monthly Archives: June 2007
Branding for Windows (How to create .ico files automatically)
After some time not having developed for Win32. I today had to brand a small RCP-application and once more completely forgot how to create this “Programm Launcher icon” using opensource tools. So I thought I have to restore this information … Continue reading
Why do developers need Code-Snippets
Many of you may already have noticed that we started a Snippet collection for JFace-Elements like the one you know from SWT. Yesterday I updated the wiki-page to show all snippets with a short description. Are Snippets only something we … Continue reading
I’m perFLEXed
Yesterday Adobe released it’s Flex 3 and naturally I went there to see this new cool technology. I downloaded it and got an Eclipse with a GUI-Builder to create SWF-Applications. The nice thing is that Flex uses an XML-Format to … Continue reading
Splash-Screen and Threads
Today I thought it would make my application look much more professional if the login-dialog is part of the splash-screen. The new extension point added in eclipse makes this possible and even provided an template implementation I could use without … Continue reading
Things are evolving
It’s been now a few months I started reworking my the first draft implementation which already provided many interesting things but there was still Java-Code needed to bind-POJOs and to interact with the Datasource. What’s new: XBL (XmlBindingLanguage) to connect … Continue reading
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