Default Window Sizes in JFace
The problem with pixels Default window sizes are a tricky issue. For a long time, developers liked to assume that all people had similar resolutions and screen sizes and simply hardcoded fixed pixel...
View ArticleInstalling Android 4 ICS on the Google Nexus One
Disclaimer: This is a guide for rooting and flashing the Google Nexus One smartphone. The described procedure worked for me, but there is no guarantee that it will work for you. If it doesn’t, it may...
View ArticleSetting up a gitolite server in Ubuntu
In the middle of last night, I decided to finally get my local git repository back on my server before going to bed. I was too lazy to read any detailed documentation, so I just googled a few howtos....
View ArticleFixing pulseaudio issues on Ubuntu 12.10
After a long hassle with varying sound libraries over the years, I’ve been relatively happy with how pulseaudio turned out for a while now. It still has its quirks, but it’s been mostly working fine...
View ArticleMy first Android app: n Tile Puzzle
So I released my first Android app. Nothing special, just a version of the same type of sliding puzzle that’s already all over the Google Play™ store. It started out as a little project I had no...
View ArticleEclipse 4.x tab font sizes in GTK
The Eclipse 4 branch introduced some notable visual changes compared to the previous 3.x releases, like a reliance on more whites than greys. While unexpected at first, most of these changes just take...
View ArticleEclipse, CMake and C++11
Getting C++11 to work with CMake is easy. Getting Eclipse to work with a CMake project is easy. Getting Eclipse to work with C++11 also seems to be relatively easy (there are plenty of guides on...
View ArticleRemote control your Android phone through adb
I wrecked my phone the other day: Doesn’t look so bad, but in fact the touch screen is completely dead. So not only do I now have to decide whether to get a new phone or try to replace the … Continue...
View ArticleNew Releases
Over the past weeks I’ve made several bug fixes to Grep Console and Tail Console. In the case of Clippets, I’ve added new few features. Grep Console’s popup notification implementation is now also used...
View ArticleSWT GTK Bug Affecting Grep Console
If you are using Grep Console with Eclipse Mars on a Linux system, you might have faced a strange issue: In certain versions of GTK, the Manage Expressions dialogue is empty – or rather, it shows the...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....