Category Archives: Lars Vogel

The WindowBuilder project had resource issues. I’m happy to announce that WB has now a working Tycho build. Simply clone the WB repo and use ‘mvn clean verify’ command to build WB. The result is afterwards located in org.eclipse.windowbuilder/org.eclipse.wb.releng.updatesite/target/repository WindowBuilder … Continue reading →

Remember than people spoke about the tragedy of the commons for the Eclipse platform? I think it save to say that these times are over for Platform UI. I think we see in Platform UI the hard work we put … Continue reading →

I’m honored to join the Eclipse Project Management Committee (PMC) for the Eclipse Top-Level Project. See Eclipse project charter for their responsibilities. As Eclipse committer and project lead for platform UI and e4 my main goals are: Attract and win … Continue reading →

As of yesterday yesterday in the Eclipse 4.6. integration build, we offer substring code completion by default in Eclipse JDK. This brings this feature known from the IntelliJ IDE and the Eclipse Code Recommenders project to JDT users and will … Continue reading →

I’m happy to announce that I finished the second edition of the Contributing to the Eclipse IDE book. To help with the contribution process, I decided to release this edition also as free download.

Last month our cleanup hero was Sopot! He delete the 2.0 compatibility layer plug-in. Developers with the most changesets Lars Vogel 42 (40.4%) Markus Keller 11 (10.6%) Simon Scholz 8 (7.7%) Dani Megert 6 (5.8%) Brian de Alwis 6 (5.8%) … Continue reading →

In the Eclipse Neon build from yesterday you have the option to trigger a “Full Screen mode”. We added it simultaneously to saneclipse. saneclipse is a set of plug-ins to improve the user experience of the Eclipse IDE and can … Continue reading →

On behave of the http://www.vogella.com/company/ I’m happy to announce that we joined the Eclipse Foundation. While our employees were already heavily involved with the Eclipse open source framework since several years, this step makes our company commitment official. We work … Continue reading →

Based on the work of Mickael Istria we added shortcuts for increasing and decreasing the editor font size to Saneclipse. Install the latest version from https://dl.bintray.com/vogellacompany/saneclipse/ and enjoy Ctrl++ or Ctrl+- for changing the font size. We hope to integrate … Continue reading →