August 21, 2017. The day the sun went dark. Starting in Oregon and ending in South Carolina, the eclipse was a sight to see. A partial eclipse could be seen from most of the United States, but that wasn’t good enough for several E-gineers. Troy, Don, Tim, and I traveled down to Scottsville, KY to witness totality. Totality happens when the sun is completely covered by the moon, and it could only be seen within a 70-mile band across the… [continue]
I18N Property File Management Gem – Eclipse Babel Messages Editor
I was recently involved in a project that supported three different languages. One of the things I grew to loath very quickly was the whole process of making sure all the property files were up to date. It didn’t take long for me to reach the point where I made it my mission to find a tool to make this easier. After doing some research, I found an Eclipse tool that reduces the work required to edit and maintain the… [continue]
Asian Character Display in Eclipse
I recently finished working on an application that included Chinese and Japanese language support. Not having worked much with Asian languages in the past, I had to figure a few things out. I thought I would share them here in the hopes of saving someone an hour of investigative work. Asian Font Support in Windows XP Sorry this is specific to Windows XP, but that’s what I’m using at the moment. If I get time I’ll do a more comprehensive… [continue]