Category Archives: software

Do you care about Garbage Collection ?

Recently there have been few instances our RCP application crashed with the OutOfMemory exception and it took lot of time to look reasons behind the crash. An easy solution is to increase the PermGen from 64mb (default) to 256mb (recommended). … Continue reading

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MyEclipse is Cool !!!

MyEclipse 6.0 GA has been released in August 2007 with a some cool features aiming at developers productivity. I just downloaded their 30 day trial version and played around little bit for two days. I was developing a AJAX and … Continue reading

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Apple releasing SDK for iPhone

After few months of iPhone in the market, Apple announced the release of native-cocoa based SDK. This would enable all the enthusiasts to build the native applications on iPhone. I guess releasing the SDK is much better for Apple than … Continue reading

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Plugin dependency visualization plugin

Thanks to Bull for contributing this great plugin. He has created and hosted the plugin dependency visualization plugin on eclipse. The dependency visualization aims to provide a set of views to assist with plug-in dependency analysis tasks. In particular, the … Continue reading

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XML vs JSON !!! Dont compare.

Java Script Object Notation (JSON) has become quite famous since 2006 and it has gone into the major companies application frameworks. JackBe, Google and Yahooare some of the companies that have adopted the JSON in their products. JSON is the response format for … Continue reading

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Top 10 technologies for 2008 from Gartner

I have been always interested to see the future predictions of technologies and how they shape up the technologists and business that adopt them. Gartner has released the top 10 technologies for 2008. Surprisingly there are no surprises. 2005, 2006 … Continue reading

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Can linux developers adopt eclipse as application developemt platform ?

Eager to shed its reputation as a tool just for Java developers, Eclipse has quickly embraced newer languages such as PHP, Python and Ruby—as well as older ones like Ada, COBOL and C. The same is not happening on the … Continue reading

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Eclipse Summit in Ludwigsburg starred with Modeling, eRCP,eSWT, Server Side Eclipse

I am sure every one, who is attending Eclipse Summit Europe, are excited. With the quality of the topics in the summit, i am looking forward to see community growth and a chance to share developers and organizations challenges in … Continue reading

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“DimDim” OpenSource Web Conferencing

I do lot of web conferencing in our company. Typically these will be demos and presentations between engineering team, product management, QA team and Customer Teams. Till now i have been using the WebEx and/or GoToMeeting as the only way … Continue reading

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Is SEI-CMM L5 better than Agile Methodologies ?

I was working with a company which moved to CMM L5 and spent lot of $ on going for appraisal. I saw how the quality department and some of the (unlucky) project managers had to run around for the CMM … Continue reading

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