Several days ago I had a post to record the unsuccessful experience to migrate source code from Clearcase to Git.

We have a new way after doing some brain storms. This way still is not a perfect solution, but it's much better than previous trial.

1. Use clearexport_ccase to export the source folder to intermittent data. …

I tried to migrate the source code of project from Clearcase to Git repository. As far as I know there is no elegant solution for such migration. For purpose of this migration, I want to keep the history and label of files in Clearcase after migrating to Git repository.

There are mature tools to migrate CVS/SVN …

Our p2 based on installer suffered performance issue when querying IUs from repositories. Though the repositories have a large number of IUs to be queried, but we find the performance of using QL is unacceptable in some special scenarios.

I published several different methods to find the expected IUs. Thomas pointed …

Yesterday I modified an existing c++ application for Windows. And its default build environment is Makefile and MinGW.

However I used a newly Windows API that is not included by header files of MinGW.

First of all, I copied the constant definition from header file of Windows SDK, and defined the Windows API method as a …

The documentation of PDE has a chapter for this topic. Basically it's simply. Copy the template scripts what you want from templates/headless-build folder under org.eclipse.pde.build plug-in to your build configuration directory that is the folder has build.properties file.

However I found the variables listed in …

I did sign the jars via reusing the existing certificate of Windows code signing several months ago. Writing it down for further reference.

Whatever your purpose of reusing the existing Windows code certificate, I only document the way from technical perspective.

After buying the certificate of Windows code signing …

I met that firefox/thunderbird complained another its instance running even if no a running firefox/thunderbird process. Finally let them run again after removing the '.parentlock' file in their default profile.

strace utility helps me a lot to find the solution.

strace -f -e file firfox

I implemented the replication tool at the end of 2009, then published it to Eclipse Marketplace in May 2010. However it's not pervasively used due to users have to install that plug-in firstly.

I searched a similar request on bugzilla, then I initialized my contribution in the early of this year. Finally it was …