I attended the Eclipse India summit organised by Saltmarch,The Eclipse India Summit happens to be  Asia’s 1st and Only Eclipse based 2 Day Conference. Before digging into the session ,Let me give an small introduction about eclipse. What is Eclipse ? Eclipse is a Java IDE Eclipse is an IDE Framework Eclipse + JDT = Java IDE First class framework for Java Language aware editor Incremental build Integrated debugging Eclipse + CDT = C/C++ IDE First class framework for C/C++ Language aware editor Refactoring, search Eclipse + PHP = PHP IDE Eclipse + JDT + CDT + PHP = Java, C/C++,...

  Short Story: We use Collanos Workplace and Protonotes for collaborating. Occasionally Dimdim too.   Now, the long story We had a few preferences for the collaboration tool to use in our startup. Had looked through dozens of them for about 2 weeks before I encountered Collanos Workplace via this WebWorkerDaily post.     We are a bunch of 5 people distributed over 4 places. The requirements we have are these: 1. A place to carry on discussions both synchronously (IM style) as well as asynchronously (email style). The discussions should be persisted so that we have a copy...

The WATBlog Panel hosted by Rajiv Dhingra of WATBlog.com was awesome and insightful. The panel consisted of Rohit Agarwal of techTribe, Suresh Sambandam of OrangeScape, Ganapathy Subramanian of Mydunia Networks and Santosh Dawara of BookEazy now founder of Lipikaar. More details about the panel here. Below are my notes from the event and it’s pretty lengthy but filled with insights.   Suresh: I felt I started off a little too early. (at 19) Rohit: Started techTribe 3 years ago and had worked on 5 startups before this. (Explained a bit about how they stumbled upon the techTribe idea.) It was...