I’m Patrik, a software engineer with professional experience starting in 2007. I’ve worked from Bologna, Den Haag, Zürich, Stuttgart, and Padua, across banking, energy, automotive, enterprise software, and open source. I’ve done extensive consulting work for major companies in Europe. Read more…
I often travel for work, and a few times happened I wasn’t able to access my VPS via SSH on a working internet connection. So I wrote this article to help me remember how to ssh everywhere. SSH Behind Firewall Read more…
This article provides a quick intro on how to set up an Oracle DB development environment on mac, Including installing the PL/SQL Developer tool and running Oracle XE on Docker. Tools To set up an Oracle development environment on mac, Read more…
Generics Generics were introduced in java 5 to add stability to the code. You can add type variables to classes, interfaces and methods. Generic Class Declaration Below you see an example of generic class declaration. by writing class Box<T>, you introduce Read more…
In Bug 514458, I added the “Theme” dynamic menu to the Eclipse IDE. This post explains how I did this. Menu Eclipse 3.x style First edit the plugin.xml, and add a menu contribution. With the locationURI menu:org.eclipse.ui.appearance?after=org.eclipse.ui.window.appearance.separator1, you’ll contribute a Read more…
Installing MongoDB on Windows. Download MongoDB from its download page, and install it. I chose to install in C:\opt\MongoDB\Server\3.2. Create a folder for database and a folder for logs. Then create a mongod.cfg to represent this data. In my case, I Read more…
This post explains the JSDT projects structure, and it is the result of my direct experience. This page serves also as part discussion for JSDT developments. Kudos -all to those who comment and leave constructive feedback: here and on JSDT bugzilla. [486037, 477020] By reading Read more…
This post is about my experience in setting up a JSDT development environment. (see also wiki.eclipse.org/JSDT/Development) Setting up JSDT There are several ways to setup JSDT development environment. A good one is having an Eclipse Installation for development (IDE) and an Eclipse Installation Read more…
As expressed in the post Marketing IDE / was: Ctr-1 driven development: these are some proposed Eclipse IDE howto videos: Create an E4 Application with PDE and E4Tools Build an E4 Application with Tycho Test E4 Application with SWTBot Build JEE Read more…