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....
Apr 27, 2013
Oct 31, 2012
Global JNDI support in Virgo Server 3.5 for Tomcat
This rather long post analyses four solutions to the problem of using data sources,
and more in general JNDI in Virgo, the 4th being the one I recommend
and decided to use, which consists in leveraging Tomcat's built-in JNDI provider in Eclipse Virgo Server for Apache Tomcat.
If you are not interested...
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...
First contact with Virgo Server, Virgo Tools, Eclipse Link
[Updated version of a post originally shared on G+ on the 22nd of June 2012]
My team and I have been working on an OSGi
enterprise prototype since April 2012. We decided to use Eclipse Virgo Tomcat Server as
our application server. Here is the experience collected so far, using
Virgo 3.5M4 and version...
How to fix unreadable Eclipse tooltips in Ubuntu 12.04
[Originally posted on G+ on May 7th 2012]
Similarly
to what happened in earlier versions of Ubuntu, the default tooltip
colors of the Ambiance theme (Ubuntu default) results in unreadable
Eclipse tooltips (black foreground text on black background).In
earlier versions of Ubuntu you could edit...