Tracing plugins in Eclipse

Developing Eclipse plugins are fun.. and debugging those are more...

If you want to enable tracing in your plugins, the following article provides a detail explanation
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/06/0221_rossner/index.html

Tracing plugins becomes very useful if you are having used or implemented listeners mechanism either ResourceChangeListeners otr Java Element Change listeneres.

By enabling the tracing of these two plugins, you may get insight into which plugins are taking
time or if there is any redudancy in code.

Lotus Notes architecture

I stumbled upon this "old" document explaining Lotus Notes architecture..

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-Notes_platform_architecture/index.html

Its good to read .. its covers the layers in details and provides excellent bird eyes view to Notes and Domino..

LS 08

I had privilege of attending Lotusphere 2008, an annual event of Lotus. The atmosphere was electric to say the least..

Video of LS 08..

Nalanda Institute of Computer Technology

http://mynict.blogspot.com/

Institute for pursuing research in computer technology.

EclipseCon 2008

I am speaking at EclipseCon 2008 on following :

Short Talk: OpenDocument Format (ODF) SpreadSheet Emitter for BIRT http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/?page=sub/&id=294

Long Talk: Meeting customer’s reporting requirements by extending BIRT
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/?page=sub/&id=161

Excited to be part of Eclipse community and sharing my thoughts there.

Todays links

An interesting dicussion on ASP vs SAAS.
http://searchsystemschannel.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid99_gci1229276,00.html

Google View of ODF
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/renewed-wish-for-open-document.html

Apple UI Guildelines.. Interesting Read

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/index.html