Apr 27, 2013

Edit keyboard shortcuts in Nautilus 3.6

After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04, I was a bit annoyed by a short-cut change: I have always used a lot BackSpace in Nautilus to go up one folder. Now, in Nautilus 3.6 this has been changed to ALT-UP. Luckily enough, even if there is no GUI for this, you can change Nautilus key bindings pretty easily....

Oct 31, 2012

Oct 2, 2012

Developing for Virgo server with Eclipse PDE

Last week I pushed to github an Eclipse plug-in released under the EPL license that allows using PDE plug-in projects with Virgo Tools. Source code, binaries and documentation are available here:   http://github.com/giamma/pde2virgo  The plug-in is pretty simple: it contributes a new builder...

Oct 1, 2012

EclipseLink and extensible entitites

[Originally shared on G+ the 14th of August 2012] If you are interested in EclipseLink support for extensible entities, besides the official documentation you may want to have a look at this forum thread: http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/357791/880331/#msg_880331 The last post is...

Eclipse and the Ubuntu global menu

[Originally shared on G+ the 7th of August 2012] For those working with Eclipse on Ubuntu, if you don't like the fact that the Eclipse menu does not blend into Unity's global menubar, you may want to try this hack https://bugs.launchpad.net/eclipse/+bug/618587/comments/46You may experience some...