Author Archives: sureshkrishna

JDOM Quick Reference

Posted on June 9, 2008 by sureshkrishna

JDOM: [www.jdom.org] JDOM is a full featured Java API for the SAX and DOM accessing. Collections are used heavily for the results and queries to make Java programmer life easier. The SAX and DOM parsers would be the underlaying default … Continue reading →

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Save time with Pulse 2.1

Posted on May 14, 2008 by sureshkrishna

Pulse has been of a great help for me personally to manage versions, plugins and to share profiles. It is a great sign of relief to many developers and also corporates as it eased the plugin configuration. Continue reading →

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MoinMoin setup in easy steps

Posted on April 25, 2008 by sureshkrishna

Wikis are a nice way to collaborate in an organizational environment. There are several wikis available in the market and thanks to the wikimatrix, which makes it easy to decide. Recently i did an exercise to install and upgrade the … Continue reading →

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Why should you Jazz ?

Posted on April 4, 2008 by sureshkrishna

Jazz is a technology platform from IBM. Its based on the client-server technology and manages the source management, build tools and promotes the team collaboration. Once of the great aspect of this platform is that its built with Team Collaboration … Continue reading →

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My JDeveloper Training

Posted on March 27, 2008 by sureshkrishna

I have been undergoing the Oracle ADF and JDeveloper training for a future project. It was pretty hard for me to accept that i am undergoing this training considering my strong belief in eclipse-as-a-platform. I started the training by asking, … Continue reading →

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EclipseCon 2008 – I loved it.

Posted on March 21, 2008 by sureshkrishna

EclipseCon needs no introduction. Its been happening from past 4 years and each year it has a lot of interesting news and updates. I was very excited to meet my ex-colleagues from Germany. Its been refreshing for me to talk … Continue reading →

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JFace Dialogs : which one is right for you ?

Posted on March 15, 2008 by sureshkrishna

JFace framework of Eclipse provides many standard and useful dialogs and a framework to build custom dialogs and wizards. When the standard dialogs seems to be too simple for your plugin or RCP developement, one can extend the standard dialogs … Continue reading →

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Videos as Next generation documentation

Posted on March 6, 2008 by sureshkrishna

Have you ever spent hours and hours, reading a document and to get some help to accomplish a simple task. I am sure many of us did this. Many of the product and training material that we have are predominantly … Continue reading →

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Wikis for your Organization

Posted on March 4, 2008 by sureshkrishna

I have been trying to select a Wiki for our business group and i came across this cool site. I worked with MoinMoin and MediaWiki and this site can compare any/all of available wiki systems. http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MediaWiki+MoinMoin http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/JSPWiki+MoinMoin+PhpWiki If you want … Continue reading →

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Eclipse Help vs Cheat Sheets ?

Posted on March 1, 2008 by sureshkrishna

Did you ever got into such an argument from your boss or colleague ? During the documentation time, many categorize the tasks/topics into either of Eclipse Help Content or Cheat Sheets. Depending on the task, domain and business at hand, … Continue reading →

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