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Build a mixed Scala 2.8/Java application from scratch with Maven [Eclipse Settings]

By ingo | Published: 26. March 2010
[EDIT 15.01.2011] There have been changes since i wrote this article. Although i don’t have experiences with it until know, I would suggest using the m2eclipse-scala Plugin which solves some bugs that occur when using the regular M2Eclipse plugin. Now i’m going to show you how to open the Maven project from Part 1 with Eclipse and [...]
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Build a mixed Scala 2.8/Java application from scratch with Maven

By ingo | Published: 24. March 2010
In this tutorial I will show you how to build an application by Maven that consists of Java and Scala source files. The project automatically uses the latest Scala 2.8-Snapshot until it’s released (Maven will look for the latest version of the Scala language each time you build it). We will setup the project to use [...]
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Eclipse: assign keyboard shortcut to a specific run configuration

By ingo | Published: 23. March 2010
A few days ago, i tried to find a possibility to assign a keyboard shortcut to a specific run configuration in eclipse (i have 4 different confs in my current project). As it seems to me that there is no built-in solution nor a plugin to set a keyboard shortcut to a specific run conf, and [...]
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Scala – an alternative console scripting language?

By ingo | Published: 23. March 2010
[EDIT 15.01.2011] This post doesn’t reflect my opinion about Scala as a console scripting language anymore. I’m currently using Python for everyday-tasks, which i find pretty much simpler and quicker to solve problems. As you often have to use Java libraries inside Scala, writing code is often still cumbersome and full of Java-style-boilerplate. So the script [...]
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Eclipse: Color your console

By ingo | Published: 19. March 2010
I just discovered a very useful plugin for Eclipse: Grep Console. With Grep Console, you can color lines in your Eclipse console if they match a specific regular expression. For example my beloved “BUILD SUCCESS” when working with Maven – which looks like this:
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Repository-visualization with Gource

By ingo | Published: 9. March 2010
During the lecture “software project”, me and my team (5 members) made a web application with JBoss Seam 2.2. After 2 semesters of hard work, we had a subversion-repository with as much as 999 revisions. Now i discovered Gource, with which you can visualize the development of a repository over the time. So Gource created the [...]
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