When using the Eclipse Rich Client Platoform (E4 specifically), there exist various ways on how to get notified when a part is made visible to the user. [Read more...]

If you ever encounter the dreaded “The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library.” error message when starting the Eclipse executable launcher and you are running Windows make sure that the path to the folder containing the Eclipse executable launcher ist not too big. [Read more...]

I wanted to update my Cygwin installation today. But no matter what I tried, the update process failed with an error message. [Read more...]

In Perl, if you want to display the contents of a data structure in a human readable format you can use the great Data::Dumper module. In PHP there is the var_dump() function. But what to do in Java? [Read more...]

Recently I had to make use of conditional processing in logback’s config files. Because the application runs in an OSGi environment I had to spend some time in order to get everything working as intended. [Read more...]

This post discusses what you have to do to be able to use JGit / Egit together with git hooks when running Windows. [Read more...]

I wanted to publish my master’s thesis using the Lulu Marketplace. If you upload a PDF file to Lulu a requirement is that all fonts are embedded. I thought that this was no problem because I had configured my Latex distribtion to embed all fonts when producing PDF files (if you want to know how to do this read on here). But I was wrong. [Read more...]