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Following Eclipse Milestones

With the Galileo Release coming up, you might find yourself having a hard time updating to the latest milestones AND keeping your favorite plug-ins up-to-date. Did you know that you can migrate your additional plug-ins from one Eclipse install to another one? This can be a huge time-saver, especially for people who like to live on [ READ MORE ]

Mac in Black: Taking Screenshots with Skitch

Last week, Heiko, Jan and I were talking about blogging about the tools that make our lifes easier on the Mac. "Isn't the Mac supposed to be making your life easier anyway?" you might ask. Well, most things really are easy with a Mac. However, there are some things that cannot be done easily with [ READ MORE ]

Advanced WikiText

In my recent posting, I showed you how to use Mylyn WikiText to easily create documentation for your project. In this installment, we're going to look at four things: How to create PDFs How to automate your publishing process How to split your documents to facilitate team work How to use DocBook as an intermediary format to add even more [ READ MORE ]

Getting started with WikiText

Documentation is the bane of all developers. Nobody likes to write documentation, but most people know we need it. Even more so in Open Source projects. If you don't have a decent documentation, it will be hard to find contributors which will eventually stall the projects ability to acquire new committers. While documenting code is discussed [ READ MORE ]

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