March 2008

Monthly Archive

TOTO.net Ver2 User Requirement Analysis (Part II)

Posted by tonny.xu on 22 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Blog System

About the page design, I like the vista Aero effect, so I will create a theme which has an Aero look & feel.

Here is an sample scratch picture.

Click the picture to enlarge it.

Design Ver200803220246

As you can see, this design is inspired by Microsoft.com, because I LIKE it, I like Aero effects, I like vista. If you have any comments, please leave it, let me know. This is the first version, version 0.0.1, so, I will continue to improve it.

This theme will be applied on WordPress, and will be implemented by <DIV> tag, I will try drop away <TABLE> tag completely.

NOTE: I did not copy any source from anybody, everything is designed by my own.

Thank you.

TOTO.net Ver2 User Requirement Analysis (Part I)

Posted by tonny.xu on 21 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Blog System

Since I have answered those basic questions of why I build this site, I consider it is time to move a little forward.

This time, I think I need to find out what I want to put in my new site. Here is the plan.

  • Basic blog tools, provided by WordPress system.
    • About
    • Search
    • Calendar
    • Categories(Tags)
    • Archives
    • Pages
    • Essay Feeds
    • Comment Feeds
    • links
    • Meta
  • Additional tools. Most common used plugins etc.
    • Recent posts
    • Recent comments
    • Comment authority image
  • Some third part tools
    • Google Adsense
    • Google Album

    When I find more, I will update this post.

How to change the splash screen for Eclipse?

Posted by tonny.xu on 08 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Blog System

When we open the Eclipse, a splash screen is shown. What if we want to change it? OK, follow me.

Step 1: Prepare your own splash picture, as I just put some words on it. Like the following one.

splash(TOTO)

The picture must be formatted as BMP file and named splash.bmp.

Step 2: Copy this file to <Eclipse installation folder>\plugins\org.eclipse.platform_3.3.3.r33x_r20080129.
Note that the platform folder is always changed as eclipse’s version up. so just find the folder start with org.eclipse.platform, it will be OK. Overwrite the original splash.bmp file, your will get your own splash screen shown on the startup of Eclipse.

Be Careful, if you change the size of splash picture, you might not be able to see those start up information and progress bar.

Changing the splash window is a simple step, Eclipse is aim to be a platform, so anyone who want to customize his IDE could use it as a platform. (Here is the official docs for branding your application based on Eclipse.)