tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44935245968239530022011-11-27T16:33:16.196-08:00This blog will be about everything from Eclipse, to PHP, to MySQL, to things I hate about life.Glenn Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16207040887213025501noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493524596823953002.post-117506099806869922009-08-09T18:37:00.001-07:002009-08-09T18:37:29.152-07:00

The Ultimate Top 10 Fat Burners

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I like to keep an eye on the Search Engine world and like to think I know quite a bit about the SEO/SEM side of things. But even if I don't it seems abundantly clear to me.Launch YPN (Yahoo Publishing Network) Yahoo! Lets assume that Yahoo does not have enough advertisers to do a national, much less a global, launch of YPN. This is where Google comes into play. Google could fill in with their

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On my current project I was having some serious problems with screen refresh and I finally found a work around. The problem was I have a 4 pane perspective setup with 4+ views. The left half of the application area is a PDF viewer. When a user (me doing testing) would open a new PDF the fragments of the filedialog would remain overlayed during opening of the new PDF as well as the other views

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If you wanted to make an Eclipse RCP SWT text field numeric only here is a simple validation you can do. More to come on this as I need better support then this for like money fields, etc. Text startText = new Text(group, SWT.BORDER); startText.setText(txt); startText.setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.FILL_HORIZONTAL));

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My Blackberry isn't working and just OUT. Blackberry / RIM has said this is a severe critical outage that affects all 12 million users in the Americas. RIM has no official response to the cause or how long this will last. The last time we had this problem it was approximately 24 hours so this could be even worse. Want to take bets how long? Post a comment and lets see who is closest!Hold your

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So I am off on a tangent from Eclipse and RCP but I do a lot of SEO stuff and wanted to talk about two ways to get free one way links.I have been able to get 20,000+ links by using a simple method. By using the referral program at www.receivelinks.com. Using this has allowed me to not even need links on my own sites. Great way to get one way linksHere is their description of the referral

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If you need a break and just want to get away from work, life, family or friends I highly recommend this entertaining game call Desktop Tower Defense. It is a free online flash game and can provide many hours of playing. See if you can beat my current high score of 6400. Enjoye

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I have not posted in a while but thought I would do a quick post before the year ends and follow up with more detail later. Right now I am trying to get QTJava API into my Eclipse RCP application. Thanks to a friend (thanks Rick!) I have some code to help with a problem with QTJava for Eclipse RCP on the Macintosh OSX platform. Isn't that ironic? Under OSX the whole movie canvas is shifted 16

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I ran across another issue that needed fixing this week. It isn't a very big problem but I figured even the little problems can be hard for some to solve since I consider the RCP / SWT documentation to be so weak.This most recent problem had to do with having multiple views in an IFolderLayout. I had two as you will see in the image below (look at top right of image circled in red) with the

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I have been working on an application that is now up to 3 swing components embedded in my Eclipse RCP / SWT application. This has become problematic having these 3rd party components to communicate properly with each other. While it is easy to communicate with these other components embedded in other views I was having a problem with RCP not properly repainting the screen. So I have come up

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Today one of the students (PhD level) came to me with a problem I had encountered before while exporting my Eclipse RCP project. Normally you click on the export wizard on your project.product page and everything works fine. But occasionally you have a problem and when you look at the log file it generates in an annoying zip file you see nothing in there or maybe some warnings. This should be

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Tabbed Views in Eclipse RCP sounds really complicated but Eclipse has made this really easy. Just follow these simple instructions and you will be off and running with multiple tabbed views.Open your perspective.java file (If you don't have this file yet, you are in trouble!)in public void createInitialLayout(IPageLayout layout) you should have some code that looks similar to this:

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For many newer people you may not find good documentation on how to quickly and easily create a new Eclipse project from existing java files. This is really easy if the source has an ANT build file but if you don't it becomes a little less obvious, at least until you have done it once or twice. Thus I thought I would blog about this simple yet not-so-well documented functionality.Steps to

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When I was starting out my Eclispe program life, which was not very long ago, I had quite the dilemna of how in the hell would I have ViewOne communicate with ViewTwo, three and four. After talking to a good friend of mine he introduced me to an old idea that still works great. Use a class called ApplicationSingleton. This class is really very handy and I thought I'd talk about it here with a

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I have been developing an Eclipse RCP application for one of my clients. I sure wish I had started to blog it from the very beginning as I have learned so much that isn't documented properly online or in the books I have. I guess it's better late then never so here we go.The latest stumbling block I ran into was that Eclipse SWT (their replacement to Java Swing) did not have slush buckets or

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