Friday, February 12, 2010

Tune Eclipse on Mac OS X

Taken from this page on eclipse.dzone.com.

After you downloaded the Eclipse package, decompress it. Locate your Eclipse.app.
Right-click it and select Show Package Contents.
Under Contents/MacOS, locate the eclipse.ini file. Open it with a text editor.
At the end of the file, add two lines:
-XX:+UseParallelGC
-XX:+UseCompressedOops

Save and close the file.

To that I would add changing the following settings:
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms64m
-Xmx512m

And add the server option:
-server

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Reviews

Is it normal for less than 1% of the users of an iPhone app to rate it in iTunes? The app we spent the fall working on is in the store, and less than 1% of people who downloaded it, have rated it in iTunes. However there are many more who have tweeted about it on twitter or commented on blogs. See the mentions page on the website for examples.

I plan to write more about the whirlwind experience releasing Taco Loco this winter, but this is what is on my mind at the moment.