Spring Overtakes EJB

I found this on a group i frequently read, hope you find it interesting as me:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/02/ejb-spring-job-listings-trends

Managing Eclipse Plugins Installations

As a user and fan of Eclipse IDE for the past 4 years, I would say that I've become in loved with the performance, scalability and easy of use of this IDE.

How it manages its plugins is quite amazing, just decompressed the package inside its corresponding "eclipse/plugins or eclipse/features" directory and restarting the IDE will be enough for having the plugin already installed in your workspace.

But I must say that such great architecture has a huge disadvantage, since inside those directories are tons of predefine plugins which are available with the default eclipse installation, it's become hard to keep track of all you post-installation plugins and it gets worse when you make an IDE upgrade i.e. (from Eclipse 3.1 to Eclipse 3.2) you get on the need to install all those cool plugins you downloaded for your development environment once again or imagine you want to upgrade an existing plugin manually, that can be really troublesome!

Digging on the Internet, found an interesting article posted by IBM on 2003 called: Put Eclipse features to work for you.

Where one on its topic it how to organize all your plugins outside the "Eclipse" installation directory, arrange them in a non-intrusive way so you can upgrade them or remove them easily.

Lets focus on that topic:

First use a clean copy of Eclipse with no other installed plugin, you can choose the flavor you want from the Eclipse Download Center and place it on "C:\eclipse" or "~/home/eclipse" or "/opt/eclipse" where ever you want on you Disk architecture :D

Let’s assume it’s installed on "C:\eclipse" for the simplicity of the example.

Now, lets prepare our plugins repositories:

In any place of your hard drive create the following directories which will hold your plugins structure, in my case I have: "D:\javarelated\eclipseplugins\jbostool\eclipse", for this example I’ m installing the new set of JBOSSTool plugins for my Eclipse 3.3, after doing this uncompressed all you plugins there, since each plugins knows where it must be installed (plugins or features directory) you will end with the following structure:

"D:\javarelated\eclipseplugins\jbostool\eclipse\plugins"
"D:\javarelated\eclipseplugins\jbostool\eclipse\features"

Ok, guys we are almost done, lets now link them together (The fresh Eclipse Installation and you newly plugins repository", move to your eclipse installation directory and create a new directory name it as "links" i.e.: "C:\eclipse\links" and using your favorite Text editor create a file with the name you like but it must have the ".link" suffix, on this example I created: "jbosstool.link" containing the following line:

path=D:\\javarelated\\eclipseplugins\\jbostool

Please watch the double “\” here.

And we are done, make sure you restart you eclipse with the -clean argument to get any new plugins loaded and have happy coding.

Some Funniest video i have seen, starring: "I will Survive"

Hope you enjoy these funny video as much as i did, the first one is a classic which i first saw it like 8 year ago. Please enjoy them

Life is only one, Enjoy it!

Yikes! I' m 25 years old and have 5 years old daughter.

I can remember that day when I got the news that I was going to be dad (Almost got a heart attack :D ), for sure can also remember how I felt when she was born, and when I was at the Hospital afraid of taking her on my arms because I thought that I was going to drop her or hurt her tiny body because of my inexperience on this area :)

But now she is 5 years old of pure energy and love; she is so cute that she can make the toughest person to get melt.

I still can remember her first photographic session that we have together at place called: "El Jardin Botanico" she was 1 year old. Please Guys/Ladies listen to me, share with your kids a "photographic session" not a "formal" session with a tuxedo or an elegant dress, just a "session" where you can play with them and get caught by the lens of a camera, believe me you wont regret it. :)

The point that I' m trying to make here is simple:
If you lost some money, you can get it back.
If you lost your Job, you can get a new Job back.
....
But the time you lost, it’s time you won’t get back no matter how much you try it.

The time is passing faster than when were kids and it’s up to us not wasting our time, in things that will not bring you nothing to your life.
So manage your time correctly, and you will never regret it.

PS:
Please i don't want to make you have the impression i' m an OLD Man sitting in a couch, just telling stories of my life.

Its just i' m realistic, that we are getting older and need to be focus on important things.