Eclipse, Product development, Java programming and Entrepreneurship2009-06-04T14:18:31+00:00http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif99.99% times I do not like to re-post youtube video links but this time I just have to spread some genius rework of a music video. And what’s more — song title is “Total Eclipse of the Heart”. So let’s use the video to find some out-of-the-box inspiration for our Eclipse platform future! Thanks for watching! [...]http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/06/04/total-eclipse-of-the-heart/Whenever you try to change your NUMBER column to more specific scale like NUMBER(10,2) you end up with an error message: SQL Error: ORA-01440: column to be modified must be empty to decrease precision or scale There is a way out of this but it is a bit hacky. Let me know if there is a more [...]http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/06/03/changing-number-scale-for-oracle-number-columns/Directory ignore feature for svn and cvs in Eclipse Synchronize View is located in a straightforward place but still from time to time we tend to forget. I keep looking at SVN settings and synchronize View Menu but it is not there. Here it comes: Window->Preferences->Team->Ignored Resources Faster is to simply type "ignored" into preferences quick search! Here you [...]http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/06/02/quick-hint-ignore-bin-target-build-etc-dirs-in-eclipse-cvs-and-svn-synchronize-view/New Eclipse 3.5M7 provides an interesting approach for confirmation dialogs. Previous "Yes, No, Cancel" has been replaced with "No, Cancel, Yes" options. I wonder what is the reasoning behind it.. Read more (including screenshots) at Ivar blog.http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/05/14/no-cancel-yes/Nice reading about MySQL future at Oracle is available at Michael Widenius blog. He is the founder of MySQL, was involved in successfully transferring MySQL business to Sun and left the company in the beginning of 2009.http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/04/23/mysql-and-oracle-founders-take/Have you ever wondered how quickly one could get from installing a J2EE server to running a JSP page that fetches data from DB using modern persistency technology like JPA? To find out we (me and Ivar) did a little test-drive using recently announced Glassfish Eclipse Bundle that contains Eclipse IDE with bundled Glassfish J2EE server, [...]http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/04/09/using-glassfish-eclipse-bundle-for-javadb-jpa-and-jsp/yeah. long silence is gone, multiuser wordpress is finally configured and ready for action! What a challenge, finally ended up tweaking couple of cookie paths. MU WP was part of the common blogging syndicate that we set up for fun between me, Ivar and couple of others at Techlipse.com.http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/03/12/jey-just-a-happy-smile/Can you guess the output without running the code? The relation to Eclipse is simply the fact that big part of eclipse.org is a great example of good test coverage built on top of jUnit. Plus, it was literally pulling my hair out in one of the eclipse-related testing-suites. I stepped into this a few years ago [...]http://ahtik.com/blog/2008/12/15/can-you-guess-the-output-junit-and-initialization/According to http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/press/releases/20081209-1276213.shtml Ericsson joined Open Handset Alliance. Yei! This means Ericsson ongoing support for open source and more importantly Google-backed Android platform. Ericsson will be offering Android-based phones mid-2009. Excellent news! I'm glad to see strong phone manufacturer joining the Alliance. As I understand, currently only Nokia and RIM (blackberrry) from the "big players list" are [...]http://ahtik.com/blog/2008/12/10/ericsson-comes-out-with-android-phone/What is the smallest change to main method that makes it sysout "true"? You are allowed to change ONLY the main method! Of course changing sysout line is out of question. You can leave your answer in comments and I'll publish/approve them together with the solution. PLAIN TEXT JAVA: public class InstanceDemo {       public static void main(String[] args){     [...]http://ahtik.com/blog/2008/12/01/java-quiz-of-the-day-same-private-field-instance-for-two-classes/