Archive for July, 2007

Eclipse v3.3

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

The list of new feature is huge. The first improvement but for me not interesting at all is windows vista native support (double-buffered painting, WPF).

Here is my filtered list ;)

  • Ctrl + 3 -> quick access UI elements (views, commands, preference pages..) with initials of words searching.
  • Ctrl + Alt +Click -> step into method when debugging
  • Refractoring without dialog
  • Initial searching – GS finds GenericServlet
  • DateTime control
  • Show references/all instances when debugging on java6
  • Null variable check detection improvements
  • Content assist for variable with unresolved type
  • Great mozilla integration
  • Open multiple types
  • Annotation processing
  • Comparing/patching improvements
  • SSH2
  • Quick assists now support also refractoring part
  • Spell checking
  • Content assist in plugin.xml and MANIFEST.MF
  • Scrolling Ctrl + mouse wheel
  • OSGi R4.1
  • Undo operation – undo’s resource operation and task and bookmar

about me

My name is Sebastian Pietrowski. I've finished Warsaw University as Master degree. I started my journey with Java 1.1 with Thread and JDBC programing in 1998 as I worked for merlin.pl. In 1999 I've passed Java Programer Certificate for Java 1.2, and was solution architect of merlin.pl infrastructure when we was moving from pl/sql to J2EE. It was great performance optimization with 10 times more req/sec than in requirements and 85 times faster as original solution.

Currently I work as Expert Software Development Java at F.Hoffmann-La Roche. The company was founded in 1896 and today, Roche employs over 80.000 people. After work I'm involved in activities related to Scala/Lift, Ruby/Rails/Merb, Python/Django. This is because I try to be pragmatic also I'm focused on application performance and tuning with success in my daily work.

My Yoda's motto: Do, or do not. There is no try.