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OutOfMemoryError in Eclipse with JDK 1.6.0_21, on Windows

Posted by Alex Ruiz in Tips on July 19, 2010


This past weekend I spent a good amount of time trying to solve an OutOfMemoryError that made Eclipse crash every 5 minutes. I’m running Eclipse Helios on JDK 1.6.0_21, with the following plug-ins: Subclipse, m2eclipse and Atlassian Eclipse Connector. It was hard to figure out which one was the troublemaker, since I installed everything in one shot on my new Windows laptop [...]

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Running Ubuntu in VirtualBox at 2560 x 1600!

Posted by Alex Ruiz in Linux, Tips, VirtualBox on June 10, 2010

Once I got my new PC last weekend, the first thing I did was to install Ubuntu 10.4 in VirtualBox (now updated to 3.2.4) in a Windows 7 host. Installation of both VirtualBox and Ubuntu was quick and painless. They just work. Since I have a 30′ monitor and a powerful video card, I wanted [...]

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Writing EDT-safe Swing UI tests

Posted by Alex Ruiz in Java, Open Source, Swing, Testing, Tips on July 9, 2009

Lately, I noticed that one of the main topics in the FEST mailing list is violation of Swing’s threading policy in UI tests. Surprisingly, this subject is not really referenced directly. Most of the time, it appears in the form of questions, code snippets or test cases not related to Swing threading at all. It [...]

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How to make Clover ignore private constructors

Posted by Alex Ruiz in Java, Tips on April 22, 2009

I’ve been using Clover for some time in FEST and I have found very useful. I don’t believe in “x”% coverage as a sign of good-quality code. Instead, I use code coverage to decide which parts of my code need more testing. Something I’m not comfortable with is seeing 0% coverage in private constructors. IMHO, [...]

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