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I’m fortunate enough to spend a good part of my days writing code in an IDE and I believe that we can always be more efficient even if that means reaching the mouse less frequently.

I’m an earlier Eclipse user, and throughout the years I’ve learned a lot of helpful shortcuts. Most of them are very popular like the ctrl+s to save and F3 to open declaration. Here are my top 10 not so popular shortcuts available in Eclipse 3.x and by consequence IBM Rational Application Developer 6 (RAD) and newer versions.

These shortcuts not only allow me to navigate easily through the source code, but also helps me stay focus on the code I’m writing and making refactoring a second nature, which by the end of the day tends to improve the overall quality of the software.

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There has been much interesting debate over the different practices defining who is ultimately accountable for source code. Who creates and modifies the code? What practices best foster responsibility for its quality?

Code ownership practices are just one component in an organization’s development process. Some “famous-name” methodologies recommend or require a particular ownership practice. However, many organizations (for better and for worse) don’t strictly adhere to any one development methodology… This post makes recommendations to consider when incorporating any of the code ownership practices into your team’s code ownership “policy.”

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When software developers and architects select open source software over commercial alternatives, there is often a premise that because the software is free, (as in beer vs. speech) there is zero cost associated with the choice. This post describes considerations and provides linked studies that provide help in clarifying how TCO may be used in the decision process.

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