When using Eclipse, Maven and Twitter Bootstrap in a web project it’s easy to compile Bootstrap on your own—using Eclipse and Maven. Therefore you can utilize the lesscss-maven-plugin [1].

When using Eclipse, Maven and Twitter Bootstrap in a web project it’s easy to compile Bootstrap on your own—using Eclipse and Maven. Therefore you can utilize the lesscss-maven-plugin [1].
Lately I was forced to downgrade a Visual Paradigm Project [1] from version 10.1 to version 9.
As stated in the Visual Paradigm Know-How Area ([2]) this could easily be done by exporting the project to XML (note: not XMI) and re-import it in the older program version. But after doing so all of my artifact’s captions were stick to the upper left corner of the diagrams. There was no chance to move the captions to the correct positions but only to replace the artifacts with new ones. But this is a very time consuming (and annoying) task.
Then I found a more automated solution:
Please note: this does the the job for me. But I really cannot guarantee for success on bigger or more complex Visual Paradigm Projects. Just give it a try—if you have to downgrade, there’s nothing to loose :-).
When there is need for a fast and powerful editor I really like Notepad++ [1]. But it bugged me a bit that there isn’t a function for formatting XML.
Recently I stumbled over the plugin “XML Tools” [2] which added the desired functionality. Like!
Two small drawbacks:
Have you ever turned a variable to a constant and—following the Java Code Conventions—also changed it’s name to upper-case? Sure, “ALT + SHIFT + R” does a good job but what if you have plenty of such adjustments to do?
There’s help out there—and because I always forget the following command I want to dedicate a post to one of my favorite Eclipse-shortcut:
"Strg + Shift + X"
Just mark the text you want in upper case and use this combination. By the way – the little brother of “Strg + Shift + X” is “Strg+Shft+Y” (to lower case).
Appendix: There’s a nice Eclipse-plugin available which shows you (very insistently) the usable shortcut of an action when triggering it by mouse: mousefeed [1]. Although it seems that this plugin isn’t actively developed anymore it’s worth a try.