Eclipse Galileo Releasd !!

The much awaited 24th June (25th in India) has arrived !!! Eclipse Galileo is out for you !!
You can get 3.5 from here. The new release have lot of exciting stuffs for Developers.

We, the "Fun Coordinating Team", in our company organized "Eclipse Galileo Release Party". We had snacks, drinks, Eclipse Quiz and preview on the new release. It was first of its kind organized by us, neverthless it was fun and exciting to showcase Eclipse.

I have been using Eclipse right from Callisto release. But till date, I had been only an Eclipse user, preacher, enthusiast. Its high time to get involved in Eclipse development too. I have seen the vibrant Eclipse community of Developers so lets get started and contribute to Eclipse to become part of such vibrant community :)

Its going to be another exciting year for Eclipse. If you come across any bugs or feature improvement do report it in Eclipse Bugzilla. Another way of contributing to Eclipse will be by becoming "Friend of Eclipse".

Happy Using Eclipse... ciao !

Eclipse: From Ganymede to Galileo

Eclipse is a one of the best products I have ever come across. Eclipse is panacea for millions of developers who need to write code or maintain it or even test it. Eclipse plays major role in lives of millions of people. Millions of Eclipse users think it is 'just' an IDE. But millions others treat Eclipse as a Platform. Eclipse was developed initially by IBM when the latter decided to adopt the open source licensing and operating model for this technology to increase exposure and accelerate adoption. IBM, along with eight other organizations, established the Eclipse consortium and eclipse.org. Initial members included (then-partners) Rational Software and TogetherSoft, as well as competitors WebGain and Borland.

Eclipse community is currently preparing for yearly release. The new release dubbed as Eclipse Galileo will go GA on June 24th. There will also be a virtual conference entitled Galileo in Action. There will be talks about Mylyn, ECF, p2 and more!

To honour this release I went on surveying already existing Eclipse users. The views are from advanced users to intermediate to early adopters. All these users are currently using Eclipse Ganymede 3.4.

My Friend Dattatreya, who uses Eclipse everyday in his work says:
I have been using eclipse from past 2 years.
Pros -
* Very neat UI
* Plug-able yet powerful tool for development
* Easy to Install and run
* Forums to support and solve most common issues / problem faced
Cons -
* Can't think of many cons, perhaps a bit more info on EMF, GMF and other emerging technologies will help. Nevertheless, it satisfies my development needs, and i do not have any intentions to switch to other non-eclipse based IDE's

Another colleague of mine says:
pros:
*Opensource
*Plug and play architecture
cons:
*Too much to understand from one version to other
*Incompatibility between versions

Sujit who is in my team feels:
pros:
1 : porting / installing eclipse in new/another machine
2: plugin architecture - scalable with amount of features
Cons:
1. Poor UI Response and It hangs many times.


One of my Lazy colleague said: While creating Eclipse Projects, every field must have an indicator to show if it is mandatory or optional. Otherwise Eclipse is very good platform to work on.
Very valid point !

A friend of mine who recently started using Eclipse feels its a great product and like above lazy colleague of mine, he googled out and sent me this link as his views: views. Little does he know that we have graduated from 3.0 eclipse to 3.5 now :) Still I appreciate the time spent for this.


My View:
Pros:
*Many companies have used Eclipse and created their Business model around it. Eclipse is a Billion Dollar business and Open Source. :)
Cons:
*Its difficult to find what are the new projects added to Eclipse. Even if they are in incubation there should be a list of Projects I can look into.
*Using GMF was quite tough for me as I was new to Eclipse before 2years. I could not find good docs like those for EMF. So I had to create my own GMF documentation for future use: Documentation here. Its not complete yet ! Need desperate help from people out here :)

I do hope 3.5 will solve all your issues if not most of it at least.

It took me more than a week to collate these response. So for the people who gave their views, we have organized a small Galileo release party. You will soon get mails for that. :)

Please do fill in your views and let us know how we can make Eclipse "A Better tool at Work".

Edited: I am really glad to say that Eclipse.org has gifted me a T-shirt for this article. Thanks.

I dunno what to write :(

Its been more than a month since I blogged. Is it some kind of Jinx my readers have put upon me. Nothing to write on. No time to write too.
But yes, I would like to thank all my readers again. I have got 2nd Pay Check from Google.

Chalo, Me signing off now.. Kaam ka time hai !!!

Chodo Kal ki Baatein

I just could not stop myself posting this. One of Golden hit 'Chodo kal ki baatein' from movie Hum Hindustani (1960)


What makes the song more inspirational is Mukesh's voice, Sunil Dutt, Cinematography and of course the Lyrics. Hats off to old golden songs.

I am on MydeveloperWorks

IBM recently announced new social technology enhancements to developerWorks, to help software developers more easily work together on open-standards-based innovations.

I am a big fan of developerWorks. When in need of some 'get-started-tutorials' to 'advanced-tutorials' on any technology, dWis the best site to refer. dW have brilliant articles written by brilliant people. I am trying to get into their authors list too, but struggle is still on. :)

With this social touch to dW, they have added communities, groups, blogs, etc etc. You can have your own profile and add any colleague in your colleagues list. Its pretty cool actually.
Today to my surprise in MydeveloperWorks main page my profile was listed. Though not yet as an author but I am indeed proud to be a member :)

Something to cheer about !!!
You can anytime visit my blog @ dW. I will be filling in some tech stuffs soon.

/ciao