Install Eclipse on ubuntu

During my recent reinstall of eclipse(long story but all my own fault!) I decided to do a bit of searching around for the "right" way to do it and came accross the following post: http://www.ubuntued.com/?p=40. Just posting it here for both my own future reference and for those of others looking for a step by step method.

Using the above link I've just installed the latest build (3.4) with no problems what so ever. Hope it helps someone else.

0 comments - Posted by mark at 9:13 PM - Categories: Eclipse

ubuntu 8.04 up and running

That's me just completed the installation of eclipse, cfeclipse and flex builder which brings my laptop back up to "code ready". I had been running Ubuntu 7.10 but being the new software slut that I am, I had been falling over myself to perform the upgrade to 8.04. Common sense has always told me to run linux distros a versions old to ensure they're stable but for some reason with Ubuntu I seem to be keen to throw caution to the wind!

So eager was I to do this, yesterday I rushed into work to take advantage of the super rapid connection before anyone else turned up...only thing being, i'd forgotten my power lead....arse....so the upgrade was rescheduled for today.

Rolled into work before 8am and got the upgrade underway, if you were following my twitter feed, you'll know what I thought of that process....a clean install it was then. Backed up my data while downloading the iso and then 40 mintes after running the disk I had a fresh install of Ubuntu...no driver problems, no issues at all...went to connect to the wireless network and yep...typed in the network key and away i went...piece of piss, try doing that on windows.

today's valuable lesson?....sack the upgrade unless you have a lot of time to burn, just back up your data, remember what you need to reinstall and perform a clean install of Ubuntu.

2 comments - Posted by mark at 11:15 PM - Categories: Linux | Eclipse | Coldfusion | Flex

fix eclipse errors

My eclipse installation was throwing some odd errors when doing basic things, like closing files...most irritating, so I tried the only two things I knew how to without conducting some google based investigations! the first is really the common sense first step which was to check for updates to my build and the various plugins I have installed, this gave no joy...I was still getting the silly errors. Next up was to run the -clean statement, I've not been unlucky enough to find anything that this can't fix yet and am happy to say it fixed these errors too.

So, how to use this comand? (it should be noted that I run Ubuntu Linux, these steps will be slightly different for windows/mac i'd imagine) Basically if eclipse is on your path,you can simply call eclipse -clean in the terminal and off you go, the startup takes a little longer than normal but it clears out your whole workspace of all the data thats built up installing stuff, updating stuff and also just the general mess that gets caused with heavy use. In my case, I didn't have eclipse available in that manner so I opted for my preferred method as below:

1. Open the terminal and type locate eclipse.ini, this returns the location of the file you want.
2. Type nano eclipse.ini to edit the file with nano(funnily enough!) and add the -clean statement to the first line, save and close the file then start up eclipse again, the startup time will be a bit longer but thats just eclipse doing it's thing.
3. Remember to edit eclipse.ini and remove -clean , you dont need to do this that often and it's not much to remember!

Hope this helps someone, like I said, I've not found anything (yet!) that the -clean statement doesn't fix and it's a good first or second step to try before getting into the guts of the matter and starting to think about a re-install.

1 comments - Posted by mark at 9:39 PM - Categories: Eclipse

handy things found in cfeclipse

I thought I'd start a post relating to useful shortcuts etc I've discovered using cfeclipse for my development work. I don't know how much of this will actually be cfeclipse specific or a feature of other plugins I have installed...or even a feature of eclipse itself...I'm not interested in writing a manual here, I just wanted to post some handy stuff that maybe other people will find useful too. The first handy thing I found was the "Link with editor" button in the Navigator tab...this was something that dreamweaver did automatically and that I'd missed when opting for an eclipse environment....the bonus is I can now choose to switch it on or off...choice is king! next up is a couple of shortcuts i've discovered...the first is to add a HTML comment, select the html you want to comment and press ctrl+shift+c....job done!...and for a coldfusion comment press ctrl+shift+m ...can't be easier than that can it? will add more as I discover them, feel free to join in though.

0 comments - Posted by mark at 11:26 AM - Categories: Eclipse | Coldfusion | Tools