Category Archives: Integrations

Posts about integration of Orion with other applications and services.

Implementation Details – Git Submodule Support

Here are some implementation details about the Git Submodule support which is now available in the Orion Web IDE. If you have not already read about the features, please check the Git Submodule Support post. A Detailed User Guide is also available. Remove submodule … Continue reading

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Orion and ESLint 0.6.2

In 7.0 we updated the version of ESLint used in Orion to 0.6.2 which has many improvements over the last version we were using (0.4.2). There is a catch though. Since version 0.4.2, ESLint has dropped support for the jslint … Continue reading

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Article on Orion and BeagleBone Black development

There’s a great article by Benjamin Cabé over at Element14 about utilizing Orion to do development on a BeagleBone Black leveraging Node.js, MQTT and all sorts of other Internet of Things technology. Eclipse Orion, Arduino and BeagleBone Black – Prototyping … Continue reading

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Hacking Node on a Raspberry Pi with Orion

With EclipseCon Europe fast approaching we wanted to have some cool demos to show off Orion that were a little out of the ordinary. Given that Orion can provide a UI to the file system of an underlying installation it … Continue reading

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Developing for OpenShift on Orion

The number of cloud deployment platforms is growing steadily. A recent entrant this year is OpenShift, from Red Hat. It includes a free software stack for Java, Ruby, Perl, PHP, and others, with support for an impressive list of application … Continue reading

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Orion Editor Ships in Firefox 8

If you opened the About dialog in Firefox today, you have probably been upgraded to the new Firefox 8 release. If so, congratulations on successfully installing part of Orion! Firefox 8 now includes the Orion code editor in its scratchpad … Continue reading

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Deploying web applications from Orion to Heroku

So you’ve written a shiny new web application with Orion, and you’re ready to deploy it. You can use old-school methods like exporting your application from Orion as a zip, or SFTPing your app to a remote web server. Another … Continue reading

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Mind the Gap: Mobile Development with Orion and PhoneGap

What would it take to build a complete mobile tool chain in the browser? Mike Milinkovich posed this question the other day in a conversion with some Orion developers. The question is quite relevant for today’s mobile developers, who currently … Continue reading

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