Author Archives: Lars Vogel

About Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel is the founder and CEO of the vogella GmbH and works as Eclipse and Android consultant, trainer and book author. He is a regular speaker at international conferences, He is the primary author of vogella.com. With more than one million visitors per month this website is one of the central sources for Java, Eclipse and Android programming information.

Coining a new abbreviation: “As far as I googled (AFAIG) instead of “As far as I know” (AFAIK)

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Lars Vogel

I think the term “As far as I know” (AFAIK) is a bit outdated. These days people first use Google to find something before asking. A more descriptive term is therefore in my opinion “As far as I googled” (AFAIG). … Continue reading →

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New Java index now used in Eclipse 4.7 for caching JAR information

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Lars Vogel

Stefan Xenos from Google reports that the JDT index is being used as a cache for the majority of .jar file access. This should significantly speed up the usage of the Eclipse Java tooling. Please download the latest I-Build from … Continue reading →

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New year resolution for using Eclipse – Hiding the toolbar

Posted on January 1, 2017 by Lars Vogel

Happy 2017. For this year I plan to use Eclipse without toolbar. I think this will enforce me to use more shortcuts, e.g. for perspective switching, for starting the last run porgram and the like. Also it gives me more … Continue reading →

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Dependency injection for Eclipse 3.x views available for Eclipse 4.7 M3

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Lars Vogel

You can now use dependency injection (di) in your Eclipse 3.x. views.You can enable this for a view via the new inject flag in the org.eclipse.ui.views extension. public class SampleView extends ViewPart { @Inject IWorkbench workbench; private TableViewer viewer; @Override … Continue reading →

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Welcome Sergey Prigogin from Google in the PMC of the Top-Level Eclipse Project

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Lars Vogel

I would like to welcome Sergey in the Eclipse Project Management Committee (PMC) for the Eclipse Top Level Project. I think of Sergey as a friend and I’m very happy that he joins our team. Based on what I have … Continue reading →

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Eclipse 4.7 M2 is out with a focus on usability

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Lars Vogel

Eclipse 4.7 M2 is out with a focus on usability. From simplified filter functionality in the Problems, Bookmark and Task view, improved color usage for popups, simplified editor assignments for file extensions, enhancements of quick access, a configurable compare direction … Continue reading →

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Contribute to the vogella Android tutorials via Github pull requests

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Lars Vogel

If you want to contribute an improvement to the vogella Android tutorials, we are providing our Android tutorials Asciidoc source code via Github. Please clone and send your Pull Requests. vogella Android tutorial at Github. Thanks for your contributions and … Continue reading →

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Out-of-office settings for Eclipse Bugzilla and Gerrit

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Lars Vogel

As I got several requests how to show an “Out-of-office” in Gerrit and Bugzilla, I documented this in the Eclipse Platform Contribution tutorial. Have fun.

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Getting rid of ugliness in the Eclipse IDE

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Lars Vogel

Continuing our work to make the Eclipse IDE nicer we also removed some “weird things of the past” in our default styling. Thanks to Patrik Suzzi for removing the yellow underline in the Mac theme (why did we have a … Continue reading →

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Making the Eclipse IDE prettier on Windows

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Lars Vogel

My company is starting a new customer project for which I have to the Windows OS. I noticed that the main toolbar styling looks really bad due to its inconsistent usage of colors for the perspective switcher and the main … Continue reading →

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