Programming

Eclipse Europa – Features worth checking out

July 8, 2007

Eclipse 3.3 code named Europa was released few days back and this annual released featured a simultaneous release of 21 projects. I took Europa for a test drive and it feels much faster than Callisto (Eclipse 3.2) Here are some of the new features worth making a note of: Java Perspective Changes In the default [...]

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Europa is here !

June 29, 2007

The annual release of Eclipse code named Europa is now available for download. Like last year’s Callisto release, the Europa release is a coordinated release of different Eclipse project teams. This year, the annual release includes 21 projects. By releasing these projects at the same time, Eclipse aims to eliminate uncertainty about version compatibility and make [...]

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Source Control in Eclipse IDE

June 18, 2007

Source Control also known as Revision control or source code management (SCM) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. Source Control is most commonly used in software development to manage ongoing development of documents like application source code or design documents or any electronic information which is worked on by [...]

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Automated GUI Recorder

April 24, 2007

Eclipse Testing and Performance Tools Platform Project project has a great write-up on using TPTP’s automated GUI recorder. TPTP’s Automated GUI Recorder (AGR) works by registering listeners with the SWT’s display instance to record all incoming UI events that directly correspond to user’s actions. The recorder keeps track of the context of the events and [...]

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Martin Fowler : Inversion of Control

February 27, 2007

Neil Bartlett, a Java developer and a consultant specializing in Eclipse RCP and OSGi is continuing his series of OSGi articles on Eclipsezone. In one of his latest post, he pointed to a paper titled “IoC Containers and Dependency Injection pattern” written by Martin Fowler. It was worth a read and the articles section has [...]

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Krugle – Another code search engine

February 19, 2007

Koders is a code search engine which enables developers to easily search and browse source code hosted on thousands of open source repositories. Krugle (which sounds like Google) is yet another search engine focused on developers and intends to make code search easier and faster. One of the nice features about this search engine is [...]

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Getting Started with OSGi

February 16, 2007

The OSGi Alliance (formerly known as the Open Services Gateway initiative) is an open standards organization founded in March 1999. Over the past few years it has specified a Java-based service platform that can be remotely managed. The core part of the specifications is a framework that defines an application life cycle model and a [...]

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BytemyCode – Share code snippets

February 10, 2007

ByteMyCode is an online code and tutorial sharing site which allows users to upload snippets or tutorials containing code and text. One interesting feature in ByteMyCode is the automatic syntax highlighting which makes the submitted code more readable. Members can not only submit and share code; they can also revise, comment and rate(Digg Style) other [...]

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Learn PHP

December 30, 2006

Paul Stamatiou has written a nice series on building a web app using MySQL and PHP. How To: Code your First Web App Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 I always wanted to try my hands on PHP and these articles are pretty good to get started on PHP and MySQL. Also don’t forget that [...]

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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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