A Universal Eclipse IDE
This year, I am participating in Google Summer of Code as a mentor for the Eclipse umbrella organization. I’ve submitted a few ideas about Eclipse Che and Eclipse Flux, and some of them have been selected. I am mentoring the project “Pair Programming with Eclipse Che,” which involves improving an existing prototype I demonstrated at various developer conferences. You can check out the GitHub pair programming Che extension.
A few days ago, my padawan Randika encountered issues setting up his Eclipse IDE on the latest Ubuntu. He faced problems with GTK3 and experienced strange performance issues. I suggested he run the Eclipse IDE inside a Docker container, which worked fine. However, since we are not in the same location, it was difficult to assist him with advanced IDE configurations like GWT super dev mode.
I posted in our Gitter chat room, “Let’s try something fun,” and we decided to launch Eclipse IDE inside an Eclipse Che Docker workspace hosted by Codenvy beta. When I posted a screenshot of this a few hours later, I received a lot of interactions on Twitter from the community: “Say whaaat?”, “WTF? :)”, “Got some more info? :)“, and “Worth writing a blog post on how to set this up?”
VGA External Projector Not Detected with Ubuntu on Dell XPS 13
Just got back from an amazing Jug Summercamp at La Rochelle. I was ready for the presentation of the Live Pair Programming with Eclipse Cloud Development and … AGAIN! I faced display issues with the external VGA projector not being detected on my computer, the same issue I encountered a few months ago at Eclipse Con France. Here’s how I managed to resolve it.
A blog site with Jekyll, Github Pages Eclipse Che and Codenvy
Hello everyone! I’m starting my new blog site. This blog site is hosted by Github Pages and uses Jekyll as the blog engine. For this first blog post, let’s see how to create such a blog post: I’m going to detail all the steps to create a blog site with Jekyll, Github Pages, Docker, Eclipse Che cloud IDE, and Codenvy.