Dealing with Eclipse Freezing issues
It turns out that Eclipse is not compatible with the latest version of the JDK (1.6.0_u21). On my system, I noticed Eclipse continually froze, solvable only by killing the javaw process. Apparently many others are seeing the same thing since the forum is a’buzz with the issue.
Based on this bug report, it seems the issue lies with the latest version of Java. Nevertheless, I imagine the Eclipse foundation will need to scramble to get a workaround out quickly since this impacts many recent versions of Eclipse.
A workaround suggested on the forum is to add the following code to your eclipse.ini after “-vmargs”:
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
This workaround seems to work for me. Let me know how it goes for you. Don’t forget, if and when this issue is solved by the Eclipse Foundation or Oracle, make sure to undo the workaround.
One other workaround that I do not recommend is to revert back to 1.6.0_u20.
Yay! Just learned how to get an RSS feed for my Facebook friends
I’ve been looking for this for a long time. RSS is a great tool for tracking updates in a website rather than visiting the same site over and over again. I’ve been looking for an RSS feed to see what my facebook friends are up to for a long time. I finally found out how to do it at this post. The only caveat is most of us are interested in our friends’ status updates. You have to do a little magic (explained in the post) to make this work.
Thank you jwz
