Just another WordPress weblog2009-11-11T14:00:56+00:00http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifWe prepared a small pdf flyer to promote Eclipse DemoCamp taking place in Tallinn, Estonia. See Eclipse DemoCamp Tallinn/Estonia website for event details! Direct link to flyer: Eclipse DemoCamp Tallinn PDF Flyer. Feel free to share!http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/11/10/eclipse-democamp-tallinn-flyer-available/New tasks and notes manager - TimeGT - came out with a new version -- improved features and stability. More details at http://bit.ly/18tppmhttp://ahtik.com/blog/2009/11/10/new-timegt-available-with-grace-period-and-more/The most secure and accessible task and note manager is now released! See TimeGT latest blog post for details. It is not a web-based tool (not yet, at least) but you can access your information anywhere with a pc and keep working even without internet connection! Check it out and let me ...http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/10/19/timegt-task-and-note-manager-launched/Yesterday (October 15th, 2009) IntelliJ announced open-sourcing most of its IDEA editor under Apache 2.0 license. Inevitable for growth At some perspective this has been an inevitable move -- code editors have turned into big platforms. They are used for much more than developing pure text-based artifacts. To remain competitive you need ...http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/10/16/intellij-idea-goes-open-source/This can be a real headache unless you know the trick: create new system environment variable "lang" with value "c" (lang=c).http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/10/16/changing-gimp-and-other-gtk-apps-to-english-language/Great news for Eclipse community and SimpleDB fans -- Amazon AWS team released Amazon SimpleDB Management tool that is built on top of Eclipse Datatools! SimpleDB Management in Eclipse lets you access SimpleDB to create, edit and view domains, items and attributes without writing a single line of code. Additionally you ...http://ahtik.com/blog/2009/07/28/eclipse-datatools-dtp-gets-amazon-aws-simpledb-support/99.99% 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 ...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 ...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" ...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/