DemoCamps are an
opportunity to showcase all of the cool, new and interesting technology being
built by the Eclipse community. They are also an opportunity for you to meet
Eclipse enthusiasts in your city. The format of a DemoCamp is informal. A group
of Eclipse enthusiasts meets up and demos what they are doing with Eclipse.
The
demos can be from research projects, Eclipse open source projects, applications
based on Eclipse, commercial products using Eclipse or whatever may be of
interest to the attendees.
Software AG is
listed under “Solution Members” in Eclipse.org.
Software AG Chennai Development Center
India Pvt Ltd hosted the very first Chennai edition of
eclipse demo camp which would prevail over the history of eclipse demo camps.
The demo camp
attracted over 30 participants and showcased some excellent Eclipse technology.
The demo camp was held on 11th July 2014.
The demo camp
began with warm welcome words from Vasudeva
Kothamasu and being a natural speaker he gave the perfect start by
presenting the opening note for the camp touching upon Change, Dreaming Big
& Disruptive Technology.
First up for
the demo was Noopur Gupta from IBM - JDT committer with “Eclipse
Luna - What’s new!” who introduced Luna to the audience. She
demonstrated some of the important enhancements which come along with Luna -
including the fancy new dark theme! Noopur also emphasized on contributing to
the community through different channels.
The next
speaker was Subramanyam CS from Intalio Software India Pvt Ltd with “eGit-extension:
An extension to github myln connector”. He started with an introduction
to GitHub and presented the features for the eGit-extension viz raising a pull
request from within Eclipse, Visualize forks of a repository & Add remote
and perform fetch using eGit-extension.
Following
that, Yeshwanth Kumar J from our RnD
performance team in Bangalore presented on the in-house project, “webMasters
Performance Testing Tool using E4”. He took us through their journey
alongside various UI frameworks and why they settled down on E4. He touched upon the E4 features and also
explained why it is important to focus on the performance of a product in it
very early stages.
The last one
was from our very own Tham S with “Java
8 features on Luna”. He let out the innovation part of Java 8 release
viz “Lambda Expressions & Nashorn” and notable features in the core API
side viz “Stream API, “Type annotations Default methods in interface, &
Date Time API”. He also demonstrated code examples for the above features in
Luna. This session was the top rated technical session for the day.
Thanks to Sivasubramanian T for sponsoring “Healthy
code magazine” to all the participants.
The camp ended
with an exquisitely wide spread buffet over which eclipsers were networking
with others. The journey was a great experience for all of us. The overall
rating for the camp was 8/10 which showed
up in the feedback form filled in by the participants. Thanks to Vasu, Mahendran, Venkat, Falconz
and the whole team in Chennai for their great support in making this event a
successful one.
| Eclipse Demo Camp Luna 2014 - Chennai |
