Eclipse Tips

The second day, I was a little late and missed the Oracle's Plenary session. I was in time for IBM's session. Being an IBM-er nothing new for me there to see RAD or websphere. It was good.

The first session I took was by Ilya Shinkarenko. More than half of the hall had repeated audience. It was nice, just as yesterday. This time, I was able to attend till the end. After a heavy lunch, I felt very sleepy in the afternoon session. The presenter was partly responsible for that ;-) Then I moved to Anshu Jain's session called 'Eclipse as framework of frameworks', which was simply awesome. To quote Ankur, "a lot of meat added with a perfect aroma, the presentation was a feast". Of the ones I've attended, that was the best. Next was networking in the corridor. After many questions on Eclipse startup to command invocation, that marked the end of the day for me.

Some afterthoughts:

(*) The good thing about this conference is the focus. This is not an all-in-conference, which targets all the CEOs, CTOs, Managers, decision makers, IT guys and your office boys. This has complete focus on Eclipse plug-in developers and almost all of these sessions are well aligned towards this.

(*) Parallel tracks are good, but they could have been specific tracks like OSGi, EMF etc. Also there were instances like both the OSGi sessions were held in parallel, so if someone is interested in OSGi, they have to choose between these two. Probably the next time, it gets better.

(*) The venue was also much better, center of the city and well accessible. No need to talk about the food, it was great :-)

I believe that the photos, videos and the slides will be uploaded online soon. I'll post a link once its done.