Eclipse

Eclipse 3.3

December 21, 2006

If you didn’t know Eclipse 3.3 is already in progress and you can grab the latest milestone release M4 here. The release is code named as Europa and you can find all the new and noteworthy features here One of the complaints with Eclipse has been the slow startup. There seems to be a major [...]

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EclEmma – Java Code Coverage

November 22, 2006

EclEmma is a free Java code coverage tool for Eclipse and is based on EMMA code coverage tool. Features Fast develop/test cycle: Launches from within the workbench like JUnit test runs can directly be analyzed for code coverage. Rich coverage analysis: Coverage results are immediately summarized and highlighted in the Java source code editors. Non-invasive: [...]

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Eclipse.org – “New” look

October 7, 2006

Eclipse.org, the official site of Eclipse had a “look and feel” upgrade yesterday. Unlike the Eclipse platform, the site was not so usable, it was always a pain searching for information in the website. I still have to explore the new interface and see whether they have improved on these aspects. From what I observed [...]

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Comic Viewer

October 4, 2006

During the summer holidays whenever I used to visit my grandparents house, one thing I always used to do was read comics. There was a huge collection over  there and I somehow managed to finish reading most of it during my stay there. And during my next visit, I used to again start reading it, [...]

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Openlaszlo

September 22, 2006

One of my colleague introduced me to Openlaszlo today and I should say I was amazed by what all you can do using Laszlo. This is what the Laszlo has to say about OpenLaszlo : OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software. [...]

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I Need a Good RSS Reader

August 22, 2006

I have been using the FeedDemon RSS Reader from the past 29 days and the trial version will expire in a day. I am definitely not going to shell out 30$ for the full version. The reader has all the features that I need, but there is nothing special in it, for me to buy [...]

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Install Eclipse Plugins – The Easy Way

August 20, 2006

Eclipse as of today is the industry’s major non-Microsoft software tool platform. The number of companies adopting this platform is a testimonial of the platform’s success. (Check my previous post for more on the history of Eclipse IDE) Eclipse has a well-designed, and extensible architecture. What is valuable about Eclipse is that it provides an [...]

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History of Eclipse

July 21, 2006

In the late 1990s, IBM began development of what we now know as Eclipse. In the mid-1990s, a number of powerful commercial development environments were available; Microsoft Visual Studio was becoming a more general-purpose tools platform. A number of Java-based IDEs were also coming into play, including Symantec’s Visual Café, Borland’s JBuilder, IBM’s Visual Age [...]

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