Monthly Archives: March 2011

Where are those Dependencies?

Posted on March 25, 2011 by kingargyle

After listening to several talks about preventing architecture erosion while at EclipseCon 2011, I decided to reinstall the PDE Incubator Dependency Visualizer plugin.   One of the common problems I’ve run into with bundles, is the mixture of UI and Core dependencies. … Continue reading →

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EclipseCon 2011: Tuesday Talk Highlight

Posted on March 23, 2011 by kingargyle

For me on Tuesday, the clear stand out talk was the “Android Developers Tools” talk, although the “Stop the Erosion of Eclipse Architecture” talk has a personal interest followed by Ian’s and Pascal’s P2 talk…oh wait that is “p2” (probably … Continue reading →

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EclipseCon 2011: Monday Talk Highlight

Posted on March 22, 2011 by kingargyle

Instead of giving a complete summary of Monday, I’ll try and highlight the one talk that I felt provided the most buzz that I attended.   Of those that I didn’t attend, but was getting good buzz on twitter was … Continue reading →

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Turmeric 1.0.0-Beta-RC1 Released

Posted on March 21, 2011 by kingargyle

Turmeric 1.0.0 Beta Release Candidate 1 has been released and ready for download.   Turmeric is eBay’s Open Source Sevice Oriented Architecture framework.   Turmeric 0.9.0 Beta was released in January, and 1.0.0 Beta Release Candidate 1 brings some bug … Continue reading →

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Turmeric Eclipse Plugin Refactoring

Posted on March 10, 2011 by kingargyle

One of the items we are going to be addressing in the next several weeks, are some underlying code refactorings for the the Turmeric SOA Eclipse Plugins.   Right now support for the Maven Standard directory structures when creating a … Continue reading →

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Clean Code irk

Posted on March 8, 2011 by kingargyle

Say you have something like the following in your code: The above is pretty basic and is probably used even in your own code. While the above works, a more meaningful API could be something like the following. Yes the … Continue reading →

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Are Projects Outpacing the ability to Adapt and Respond?

Posted on March 7, 2011 by kingargyle

After reading Ed Merk’s, post about trying to be fair and balanced, and the corresponding bug, in which Scott Lewis has a valid concern, I’m wondering if the number of projects that the Foundation has under it’s umberalla is outpacing … Continue reading →

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Add Code Coverage and CheckStyle to Minerva

Posted on March 5, 2011 by kingargyle

Chris put together a small demo project (Minerva) for those interested in setting up a Tycho build for their eclipse projects.  There are a few minor issues with the current code. There is an issue with the feature not pulling … Continue reading →

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Checkstyle JavaDoc Compliance Checking

Posted on March 4, 2011 by kingargyle

Ever since I read Clean Code, I’ve been more aware of the uncleanliness of the code I write, and more importantly, the code I have to maintain.   Although the book recommends against JavaDocs for variables, I find it necessary … Continue reading →

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Turmeric SOA Public Calendar

Posted on March 1, 2011 by kingargyle

The eBay Open Source Turmeric SOA project has created a Google Calendar to track the events for the project.  If you are interested in upcoming target dates, meetings, or events for the project, please visit the Calendar on our wiki. … Continue reading →

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