In this episode, I rely on Eclipse Code Recommenders to develop a simple Eclipse Plugin. My plugin provides a simple dialog implemented with SWT and JFace. I don’t know much about SWT and had no experience with JFace, but thanks to the recommendations I find my way fast. After only […]

[LD] Eclipse Code Recommenders #2 – Real Development | Let’s ...


Task 7 is tricky. I didn’t get the full skill points… help me out here! The remaining tasks appear easier, which helped me to finish sector 7 in this episode. * CodeHunt Playlist: http://goo.gl/WtTJ3L * Play CodeHunt: https://codehunt.com —————————————— * Let’s Develop Conway’s Game of Life: http://goo.gl/xc59GX * Let’s Develop […]

[LD] Code Hunt #19 – Strings – 07.07 to 07.10 ...


Concatenation, replacing characters, and reversing strings is key to the tasks in sector 7. For tasks 4 and 5 I resort to C# for maximum skill points, because Java is lacking the necessary utility methods… * CodeHunt Playlist: http://goo.gl/WtTJ3L * Play CodeHunt: https://codehunt.com —————————————— * Let’s Develop Conway’s Game of […]

[LD] Code Hunt #18 – Strings – 07.01 to 07.06 ...



The task is easy, but getting full skill points is hard. I struggle with Java and finally switch to C# to do it. Switching, the reason for my struggle becomes apparent… * CodeHunt Playlist: http://goo.gl/WtTJ3L * Play CodeHunt: https://codehunt.com —————————————— * Let’s Develop Conway’s Game of Life: http://goo.gl/xc59GX * Let’s […]

[LD] Code Hunt #16 – Strings – 06.12 [blind] | ...


Following the helpful comments of Ingo I redo the tasks 2 and 3 of sector 5 to get full skill-points on both of them. Thanks a lot! * CodeHunt Playlist: http://goo.gl/WtTJ3L * Play CodeHunt: https://codehunt.com —————————————— * Let’s Develop Conway’s Game of Life: http://goo.gl/xc59GX * Let’s Develop With: http://goo.gl/Vx3lQJ Share […]

[LD] Code Hunt #17 – Conditionals – 05.02 and 05.03 ...


Eclipse Code Recommenders is a valuable extension of Eclipse’s default code completion that helps you to call the right method at the right position. In this episode I explain how to install Eclipse Code Recommenders and demonstrate how it supports your development. * http://www.eclipse.org/recommenders/ * Let’s Develop With: http://goo.gl/Vx3lQJ —————————————— […]

[LD] Eclipse Code Recommenders #1 – Setup | Let’s Develop ...



Apache Maven Multi-Module Projects are a powerful mechanism to organize interdependent, but separate software components. In this episode I demonstrate how to set up multi-module projects in Eclipse and how to manage dependencies and plugins for all the modules. ► All Maven Episodes: http://goo.gl/3KK2gb ► Don’t Miss an Episode: http://goo.gl/whzDi1 […]

Maven in Eclipse (m2e) 03 – Multi-Module Projects


With some hard thinking I finally solved 06.07. Tasks 06.08 to 06.10 are surprisingly easy again (or I was just lucky to come up with the right idea). Task 06.11 took me quite some time to figure out though. * CodeHunt Playlist: http://goo.gl/WtTJ3L * Play CodeHunt: https://codehunt.com —————————————— * Let’s […]

[LD] Code Hunt #15 – Strings – 06.07 to 06.11 ...


Upper case und substring are key to the tasks in sector 06. Except for one task, max skill points are possible in Java. The right indexing for substring computation can be tricky! * CodeHunt Playlist: http://goo.gl/WtTJ3L * Play CodeHunt: https://codehunt.com —————————————— * Let’s Develop Conway’s Game of Life: http://goo.gl/xc59GX * […]

[LD] Code Hunt #14 – Strings – 06.01 to 06.07 ...