ChemDev

Scientific writing and publishing is often done by using LaTeX. This easy to learn and powerful typesetting language can be extended with a whole bunch of packages reaching from chessboards to chemistry. In former times one used a normal text-editor to compose his documents. Today there are several IDE-like editors, making LaTeX much more comfortable. TeXnicCenter and TeXMaker are two of them. With the rise of Eclipse it was just a matter of time that there would be a plug-in, embedding TeX into Eclipse, and there it is. I am not a friend of having an extra program for each purpose. So if there already is a program that could do the job, why install another one for it. Eclipse is needed anyway, so why shouldn’t it be used for typesetting with LaTeX. But wait a minute, let’s have a look, if TeXlipse is good enough to replace a TeX-editor like TeXMaker. Read more »

Tags: Eclipse, Eclipse Plugin, LaTeX, TeXlipse

Working with the mouse in IDEs, and so in Eclipse is anything but efficient. I always preferred keyboard-shortcuts because they are faster than any mouse-move can ever be. By now there are few people who are able to use their very own computer without using a mouse. Whenever I have to stick with a new program the first thing I do is making a list of the most common and useful shortcuts. This list gets stuck on the margin of my display until I know the most common ones. At this time it’s a list with some keybindings of Windows Vista. However, I made a list of pretty useful shortcuts in Eclipse, that should make your work in the IDE much more efficient. I enjoy working with them very much. I have uploaded a pdf-file you can download here  –> eclipse-shortcuts.pdf
Have a look, you might find it useful.

Tags: Eclipse

Yesterday I bought the current issue of c’t, a german magazine for computer technology. Usually I get the information I need from the internet, but from time to time an interesting headline catches my eye, so yesterday. „Discovering Eclipse“ it said. So this headline did ist job well and made me buy the magazine. Despite the little bonus of the latest release of Eclipse and a number of plug-ins on DVD. Today I got a glance on the article. It was quite interesting. I’ve learned several new things from it. A very nice thing I wanted to drop a few lines on is Eclipse’s „Extract Method“-feature. Read more »

Tags: Eclipse, Java