The Best of the Week (Oct. 31): Eclipse Zone

Make sure you didn't miss anything with this list of the Best of the Week in the Eclipse Zone (October 31 - November 07). Here they are, in order of popularity:

1. Top Ten Eclipse Plugins Right Now

• Eclipse Marketplace is the go-to spot for Eclipse plugins. With over 11,000,000 installs of its 1,830 tools, its got just about everything for all your Eclipsing needs. These are the most popular extensions for the past 30 days, showing what tools and plugins are needed most right now.

2. A Good Programmer: Why You Need to Avoid Being One

• I’ve worked with what I consider to be good software programmers but are they really good programmers? What makes them so good? (and maybe, are they just average?)

3. Extend BIRT Interactive Viewer with a Pop-up Dialog Box [Code]

• In a previous BIRT Interactive Viewer Extension (found here), a few lines of jQuery code let you add row highlighting capability to BIRT tables. In this post we extend that idea further, showing how to add a fully configurable pop-up dialog box to display details that don’t need to appear in every row.

4. Data Driven Digest for October 31

• Each Friday we share some favorite reporting on, and examples of, data driven visualizations and embedded analytics that came onto our radar in the past week.

5. Processor Expert Value Proposals

• The cool thing with Processor Expert is that it gives me guidance through the settings. And there is a nice (rather hidden feature) which proposes me values I can enter...