Mantis- Perfect Bug Tracker

As described in my previous post, I am always passionate about  useful OSS applications.
Recently I had been searching for a good Bug tracking tool which is easy to learn and use. Bugzilla is something I had been used to for long. But this is a new and small company, and I want to introduce this [...]

My passion for Open Source Software

I have always been passionate about good open source technologies, tools etc.
It all started with some collaborated work on Gantt project, years back. later I had worked with  ZK one of the robust Development tool I have seen in sourceforge. Eclipse plugin development importantly GMF and GEF also keeps me interested.
Though I am very busy [...]

Plagiarism Truth or Myth

Wikipedia answers – “Plagiarism, as defined in the 1995 Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary, is the “use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work”.”
We all run in to an issue with Plagiarism at least once in a life time knowingly and [...]

Iphone and Android

While I am writing this Android phones are still not available in India. A little bit of googling shows there are some guys who use Android based mobile in India. HTC is planning to hit the market some time soon I believe. This makes me wonder why it takes such a long time for a [...]

Jquery vs Prototype

Since our company had been more in to web development these days,  I was playing out the differences between Jquery and Prototype. To be very frank,  I was a die hard fan of Prototype once it was shown by one of my Developers in 2008. We all knew Jquery is there, we have used light [...]

Print all GMF diagrams with a single click

Print all GMF diagrams with a single click
We know that GMF gives only three types of Print Options for the Print Range.
a. Current Diagram
b. All diagrams from open models
c. Selected diagrams.
Suppose consider your projects contain a large number of diagrams and you wish to Print all the diagrams. What are the options left? You need [...]

Workspace Launcher for your RCP application

There seems to be a number of features that eclipse has that we need to make available in our RCP application. One such feature that many like to have in their RCP application is the eclipse’s default workspace launcher.This mainly applies to those RCP applications that has a project stuff nature. One point or other [...]

What more to ask for…

Last week was too good.  Eclipse Ganymede  and zk 3.0.6 released.  What more you can ask for in a single week??
Get the latest Eclipse from  here
Get the latest ZK from  here
I will come up with a good review after playing out with the new release of zk. Happy to know that firefox3 is supported.  [...]

Want Rich/Stunning Web Applications? ZK is right for you !

The first thing that came to my mind when ever I heard “Web Application” was JSP on front-end. May be I was too used to it or May be too comfortable with it. During that time I had to learn ZK for a project and the result is “I am totally smitten by [...]

Convertion of an eclipse plugin to a standalone RCP application

The platform-independent Eclipse RCP architecture makes rich-client applications easy to write as the business logic is organized into reusable components called plugins. In this article, We are going to convert Mylyn 2.2 Release Plugin to a standalone RCP application. I choose Mylyn because it is one of the most popular eclipse plugin known to [...]