Departmental photography competition

I won our first departmental photography competition with this picture of my cat Eclipse:

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Useful Searches to add to your Help view

As promised in the previous post, here are the instructions on how to add specific search locations to your Help view. To add new search locations to your Help view, press F1 to display the Help view, and click on the Search tab. Expand the Search Scope section, and click on Advanced Settings to display [...]

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GUI elements and terminology

One thing I find that makes writing difficult is the confusing mass of terminology around GUI interface elements such as buttons, menus, pages, windows, tabs and so on. Many of the tools that I work with have standard elements that have standard names. For example in the Eclipse platform the main ones are workbench windows, perspectives, editors and [...]

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