TimeGT blog has couple of new productivity-related articles (last post from today). Feel free to check them out, maybe you’ll find something inspiring. They explore issues around multitasking, give ideas about setting your own deadlines for increased productivity and introduce Eisenhower Matrix for task prioritization.
How Multitasking Kills Productivity
Quadruple Your Productivity by Setting Deadlines
Any feedback is more than welcome!
Dear Eclipse GSoC students and mentors,
Please make sure your survey is filled in latest for tomorrow, July 16th 19.00 UTC.
See http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/timeline for details.
.. and have fun! : )
Feel free to contact me or any of the program admins in case of any troubles!
There is a limited time offer to get 20% off from monthly and 50% off from 6 month packages!
Use AHTIK5217 at checkout! Discount is yours to keep until you cancel or upgrade subscription. Promotion code is valid for next 10 days (will expire November 30th, 2009).
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We prepared a small pdf flyer to promote Eclipse DemoCamp taking place in Tallinn, Estonia. See Eclipse DemoCamp Tallinn/Estonia website for event details!
Direct link to flyer: Eclipse DemoCamp Tallinn PDF Flyer.
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New tasks and notes manager – TimeGT – came out with a new version — improved features and stability. More details at http://bit.ly/18tppm
The most secure and accessible task and note manager is now released!
See TimeGT latest blog post for details. It is not a web-based tool (not yet, at least) but you can access your information anywhere with a pc and keep working even without internet connection!
Check it out and let me know what do you think!
Yesterday (October 15th, 2009) IntelliJ announced open-sourcing most of its IDEA editor under Apache 2.0 license.
At some perspective this has been an inevitable move — code editors have turned into big platforms. They are used for much more than developing pure text-based artifacts. To remain competitive you need to allow the maximum level of integration, openness and visibility. Which becomes impossible without open-sourcing all the core components. Controversially, using a permissive license (ASL, BSD, EPL, LGPL, not GPL) can turn your business into a charity organization.
IDEA Platform plus Java, Groovy and Scala support are all open-sourced. It looks like IntelliJ is retaining some of the revenue stream by keeping Java EE stack closed-source, calling it IDEA Ultimate and offering it as a commercial product.
I think IntelliJ decision about keeping EE as a separate commercial product is a very important indicator for the whole IDE marketplace and particularly for Eclipse. Much to my surprise, at the last Eclipse members meeting Q3 call there were some very interesting download stats reported. Eclipse Galileo IDE for JEE gets 41% of the downloads! While Classic and Java combined were 34%! (Off-topic but rcp/plugin edition was 2%).
This 41% of JEE downloads does not include 3rd party distribution providers, many application server vendors have their own bundles with a pre-configured settings (for example GlassFish Tools Eclipse Bundle).
IntelliJ move and Eclipse Galileo JEE download clearly demonstrate how important is a good tooling support for Java Enterprise development.
IntelliJ move can also be a sign for Eclipse that there is now a friendly competitor who has put their bet on outperforming current Eclipse JEE feature-set with a commercial offering.
I have no experience with the IntelliJ JEE offering, is it better than the JEE tooling from Netbeans and Eclipse?
This can be a real headache unless you know the trick: create new system environment variable “lang” with value “c” (lang=c).
Great news for Eclipse community and SimpleDB fans — Amazon AWS team released Amazon SimpleDB Management tool that is built on top of Eclipse Datatools!
SimpleDB Management in Eclipse lets you access SimpleDB to create, edit and view domains, items and attributes without writing a single line of code. Additionally you can use SQL Scrapbook to write SQL select queries with the help of auto-completion.
See http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse for more information and download instructions!
Screencast about the Eclipse Datatools SimpleDB features:
AWS Toolkit including SimpleDB DTP integration is licensed under Apache License 2.0 so it is free to download.
99.99% times I do not like to re-post youtube video links but this time I just have to spread some genius rework of a music video. And what’s more — song title is “Total Eclipse of the Heart”. So let’s use the video to find some out-of-the-box inspiration for our Eclipse platform future!
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