Month: May 2013

A few years back I had an office mate who used a standing desk.  He said that he had been using a standing desk for many years and that once he got used to it he liked it much better.  Since then, I have noticed a number of studies that indicate sitting for extended periods of time is just plain bad for you.

For a while I have been wanting to make the switch, and today I took the plunge.→ Continue reading “Making the Switch to a Standing Desk”

1. Open the Preference dialog and go to General/Editors/File Association.  Add a new file type with the *.launch suffix.  In the ‘Associated Editors’ box below, click on Add and assign the XML editor to the file type.
2. In the Preferences dialog go to General/Appearance/Content Types.  Click on the + next to Text.  Click on ‘XML’ in the tree so that it is highlighted.  Click ‘Add’ in the box below and add the *.launch suffix

→ Continue reading “Associating Eclipse .launch Files with the Eclipse XML Editor”

A very handy text editor.→ Continue reading “Sublime Text Editor”

Changing the color of the block that get’s displayed in the right-hand side-bar when an occurance of a variable, field, or method is selected:
Eclipse > Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations > Occurrences > Color

Alias package names in the Package Explorer: Window > Preferences > Java > Appearance > [] Abbreviate package names→ Continue reading “Some Handy Eclipse Preferences”

A couple of months ago I stopped being able to purchase anything through the Google Play Store on my Nexus 7 Android device.  There were a number of different errors that were displayed:

General error messages:

• Couldn’t sign in. There was a problem communicating with google servers.  Try again later.

From the Google Play app:

• “Authentication is required.  You need to sign into your Google Account.” 

I tried everything:

• Re-installing Play
• Dumping the cache and disabling and re-enabling Play
• Doing

→ Continue reading “Couldn’t sign in. There was a problem communicating with google servers. Try again later Error On Nexus 7 Tablet”