Monthly Archives: October 2009

>VEX (Visual Editor for XML) gets some life

Posted on October 28, 2009 by

>It has been way to long since I reported anything meaningful on VEX, a WYSIWYG editor for XML files. It originally resided on SourceForge but has since migrated to eclipse in the WTP Incubator. Thanks to some community contributions we … Continue reading →

Posted in dita, docbook, eclipse, xml | Leave a comment

>Bad Habit in Design: Concentrating on the 20%

Posted on October 27, 2009 by

>I was hit again today with a bad habit we can get into trying to solve a problem. At work we need a way to handle meeting and conference registration. However, instead of concentrating on addressing the 80% use case, … Continue reading →

Posted in agile, eclipse, joomla, xml | Leave a comment

>IDs Need to be Published

Posted on October 25, 2009 by

>Periodically on the eclipse IRC we have people looking for a particular ID for a menu, popup, view, perspective, or toolbar. There is the excellent plugin spy (ALT+SHFT+F1 and ALT+SHFT+F2) however it does not necessarily reveal every ID one needs … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, open source | 1 Comment

>Eclipse DemoCamp – Columbus, OH

Posted on October 22, 2009 by

>The first Eclipse DemoCamp for Columbus, OH is coming up. It will be part of the standard COJUG (Central Ohio Java Users Group) meeting. The date is November 10. There is a morning session and an evening session. We are … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse | Leave a comment

>Model the Data not the Form

Posted on October 21, 2009 by

>A pattern seems to have emerged from some standard organizations in which they try to construct their data exchanges based off of existing paper forms. Unfortunately, this tends to lead to a very inflexible model, that conveys one particular view … Continue reading →

Posted in standards | Leave a comment

>API Design is easy…Good API Design is HARD

Posted on October 20, 2009 by

> API is Forever. Wise old Programmer Note: I highly recommend watching “How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters” by Joshua Bloch. Any time we write code we are fundamentally writing an API. So writing an API … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse | 1 Comment

>XQDT now at Eclipse

Posted on October 18, 2009 by

> This past week XQDT.org‘s code finally was given parallel IP status from the Eclipse Foundation. Meaning we were finally able to get the last bit of code checked in, so that some ip cleanliness concerns can be addressed. This … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, xml, xquery | Leave a comment

>The Problem of Exporting Everything

Posted on October 16, 2009 by

>The following blog entry by Berin Lortisch, reveals a particular problem that a required practice by eclipse projects has produced. The practice of requiring eclipse plugins to Export all of their packages. Particulary this quote from Berin: I do have … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse | 6 Comments

>User Defined Schema Types and PsychoPath

Posted on October 15, 2009 by

>PsychoPath is a java based XPath 2.0 Schema Aware Processor licensed under the Eclipse Public License and is maintained by the WTP Source Editing team under the wst.xsl component. In the seemingly never ending quest for compliance to the XPath … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, xml, xpath, xsl, xslt | Leave a comment

>XSL Aware Outline Part II

Posted on October 12, 2009 by

>As a follow up to the prior post on enhancing the Outline view to be more XSL Aware, I had some good input from Alex on some additional features. The result is as follows: A new Stylesheet Model view is … Continue reading →

Posted in eclipse, xml, xsl, xslt | Leave a comment