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Installing GMF on Eclipse 3.3 (M7) Europa

Odd Christer Brovig — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:06:06 +0000

I ran into a problem today trying to install GMF on Eclipse 3.3M7 Europa. Some file within the GMF package could not be found and the updater just threw an error. The solution was easy (after trying so many mirrors..), use GMF’s own update site (of course..). The URL to the update site is: http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/gmf/update-site/releases/site.xml for the Europa specific builds.

Add the site to the update manager, check of to search both the Europa discovery site and the GMF Update Site, select GMF from the GMF Update Site and then press Select Required and you should be golden.

Info from the GMF Update Site page.

SumatraPDF – a small gem

Odd Christer Brovig — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:31:23 +0000

Thought I just would share a link to a small gem (literaly):
SumatraPDF. It’s a blazing fast PDF viewer without any bells and whistles, just pure PDFviewing goodness. It can’t select text, but I seldom do that anyways.

Give it a try :-)

Essential Software for a Fresh Windows XP Install

Odd Christer Brovig — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:07:14 +0000

As a personal reminder, and possibly helpful for other people, I’d thought I’d post what software I spend hours installing after hours of installing Windows XP.

Security

Spybot S&D – Cleans out spy and malware
Avast! Anti virus – Free, and good(?)
Avira Anti virus – Free, and good(?). Has a annoying screen popping up each time it updates though.

Development

Eclipse – My IDE of choice, for Java at least.
VIM – easy, slick text editor.
PuTTY – SSH/Telnet connectivity.
Java – of course.
TortoiseSVN – Subversion client integrated in Windows shell
ArgoUML – Open Source UML diagram editor, can also generate code skeletons

Surfing/Net

Only one(I use GMail, Reader and Calendar from Google for other net stuff.)

Firefox

General purpose

WinSCP – SSH/SCP file transfer.
7-Zip – Open Source file (de)compressor.
WinRAR – file (de)compressor, I still use although 7-Zip takes them all..
Launchy – cool utility that lets you launch apps. by keystrokes.
SyncToy – A nice, and free, utility from Microsoft that let you do backups/syncs of files and folder. E.g. between disks.

Multimedia

VLC – Open Source multimedia player, plays most formats.
foobar2000 – Free and simple mp3/aac/ogg/etc player with low low mem. usage

More suggestions?