Monthly Archives: October 2008

>Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno

Posted on October 31, 2008 by

>…translated from Latin into English, “One for All, and All for One”. It’s a motto I think fits well for both open source development and for data standards development. It’s a concept that can be hard for a company to … Continue reading →

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>Another painless Ubuntu Upgrade

Posted on October 30, 2008 by

>I’ve been using various versions of Ubuntu Desktop as my primary operating system for about a year. In fact, I don’t even have a copy of Vista or Windows XP installed on the laptop. When I bought the machine, my … Continue reading →

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>WTP Incubator Updates

Posted on October 28, 2008 by

>We have a couple more WTP Incubator projects getting ready to ramp up now that the committers have made it through the gauntlet of paperwork and sign offs. XML Security Tools – Dominik Schadow is the original author and will … Continue reading →

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>A Ray of Light for the Beautiful Game.

Posted on October 27, 2008 by

>For those that don’t know, one of my hobbies is Refereeing soccer(football for the rest of the world). Particularly, I’m a State Level USSF Level 6 referee. What does this mean….it means that I get to spend a lot of … Continue reading →

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>Visual Editor for XML

Posted on October 17, 2008 by

>The Visual Editor for XML is now an official Web Tools Platform incubating project. The code is checked into CVS, and some initial work on refactoring and re-arranging the plugins has begun. With that said, a wiki page has been … Continue reading →

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>API Design Guidelines

Posted on October 16, 2008 by

>API Design: There is a good article on API Guidelines at the “Do not set yourself on fire” blog. Must reading for anybody that is doing API design work. Single Responsibility Principal, Refactoring, and API Design: As Bjorn mentioned there … Continue reading →

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>ANT2IDE

Posted on October 14, 2008 by

>While reviewing various blog feeds, I saw mention ANT2IDE. Looks interesting especially if you have an existing build process that needs to be imported into eclipse.

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>XSL Tools Outstanding features

Posted on October 13, 2008 by

>XSL Tools 1.0M3 will be out in a couple of weeks, and again there are a few more nice features that have been implemented. Open Declaration/Hyperlinking for xsl:with-param @name variables. By CTRL-Clicking on the value in the name attribute it … Continue reading →

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>Null Check or Null Object Pattern

Posted on October 11, 2008 by

>Something I’ve seen a lot in code over the years, no matter which language I happened to be coding in at the time, are checks for Nulls. They end up being scattered through out code for various reasons. The question … Continue reading →

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>UI Coding Question

Posted on October 8, 2008 by

>One of the things I see fairly often in eclipse UI code is something like Tom Schindl‘s example. I could have picked almost any code but Tom was kind enough to post his hack (his words not mine) to the … Continue reading →

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