Eclipse Tips

Before I start, a question: How do you know you are in troubled economic times?

Today is the first day of Eclipse Summit India. Luckily, even after screwing up by taking a wrong road and going in a different direction, I did make it well before the keynote by Microsoft. Yes, Microsoft. They are one of the Platinum sponsors. Just like me, everyone was wondering what are they doing there, the answer told was "interoperability". I'm not going to summarize any of the topics presented, so I'll leave you to guess what how he positioned M$ in that.One thing that was interesting is they have PHP as a first class citizen in their IIS. That was surprising for me. Additionally they have some thing called a 'One Installer' which will download all that you want for a web site and install it on your server - not just PHP module for IIS or the latest .Net runtime, but Wordpress and Drupal as well! Wow!

After that it was Ilya Shinkarenko's workshop. It was good. Started a little slow and the pace moved up during the session. I've to cut it in the middle and rush to the other room. Adobe guys were just finishing their presentation. Both of them had a black Mac book and even before I said another 'wow', I noticed it was a windows machine with an Apple sticker. Good idea, I should say. The presentation was mine, and I hope it went well. I did get some good feedback during the lunch. Its definitely troubled ecomony now, but the buffet was good :-)

Post lunch, yeah, I'm in the EMF workshop and blogging this (yeah, we got free wi-fi). Got to run for Ankur's Presentation. Rest of the sessions in the evening/tomorrow.

Before I sign out, the answer: In the free goodies for attendees, you get a pencil instead of a pen ;-)