Energy savings with Google

Hi All,

Long time has passed since my last post. I’we been busy with my day work and the rest of my time was spent with my family.

Of course I am still up to date with the happenings but I was too lazy to repost stuff you can laready find by yourself on the net. Today I saw a nice Google post so I taught that it is worth to share it with you, you might be interested. So here it is: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/gmail-its-cooler-in-cloud.html

Happy coding
N

Eclispe IDE Tip: Speed-up Eclipse startup

I was just reading some article related to Eclipse and OSGi plugin and bundle concepts, and found a nice tip of optimizing the Eclipse boot time and also spare some used memory too.

In the Eclipse runtime there a extension point defined specially to handle the early activation of some code/bundle. This extension point is called org.eclipse.ui.startup and causes preinitialization of all the implementors (extenstions) right before the Eclipse UI is started. There are several plugins which do implement this extension point and hereby are always starting up even if You don’t use them.

It seams that there is a simple way of managing these extension to be started or not at boot time:

If you open the Window>Preferences… and go to General/Startup and Shutdown, there is a list of the plugins activated at startup, which can be checked or uchecked if needed. This is a really cool feature. ;-)

I have deactivated some of the plugins from there which I don’t use on daily basis and it seams like my Eclipse is starting up a bit faster. (Or it just seams like ;-) )

Happy coding,

N