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Eclipse M2M

Lua Development Tools now available as a standalone productLua Development Tools disponible en produit autonome

The IDE for the Lua programming language that is being developed within the Koneki project is getting more and more adoption these days. There are two main segments where Lua is intensively used: embedded platforms (the Lua VM has a very small footprint and is written in pure ANSI C, making it easy to embed), and video game industry (Lua is easy to learn, making it a language of choice for game scripting).

In order to facilitate the installation of Koneki Lua Development Tools for people not very familiar with the Eclipse SDK (nobody’s perfect, eh?), we are delivering an all-in-one package, that is ready to use.
It is already configured to download updates from the Koneki update site, so you should always benefit from latest features and bug fixes.

If you are interested in Lua development, go check it out now (and enjoy the nice splash screen)! 🙂

L’IDE pour le langage Lua développé dans le cadre du projet Koneki commence à être de plus en plus utilisé. Il y a principalement deux domaines dans lesquels Lua est utilisé de manière intensive: les plateformes embarquées (la machine virtuelle Lua a une empreinte mémoire minuscule, et est écrite en C ANSI pur, la rendant facile à embarquer), et l’industrie du jeu vidéo (Lua est très facile à apprendre, donc très adapté pour des moteurs de scriptings ou de UI).

Afin de faciliter l’installation des Lua Development Tools de Koneki pour les personnes peu familières du SDK Eclipse, nous avons mis à disposition un produit prêt à l’installation.

Il est préconfiguré pour se mettre à jour automatiquement, ainsi vous disposerez toujours d’une version incluant les features les plus récentes, ainsi que les dernières corrections de bugs.

Si vous avez besoin d’un environnement pour développer du Lua, allez télécharger l’outil de ce pas (et profitez aussi du beau splash screen)! 🙂

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Eclipse M2M

Machine-to-Machine contest at EclipseCon Europe!

In just about 10 days, EclipseCon Europe and its storm of great keynotes, awesome talks, and yummy frosty beverage will be all upon its lucky participants.
This year, two great programming contests will allow you to have fun doing what most of you do best: write code!

In this post, I am going to tell you a bit more about the Machine-to-Machine contest that Sierra Wireless has set up for you, in collaboration with freedroidz.

We have built a network of Arduino+Xbee routers that collect data out of sensors (temperature, ambient light, …) and a Lego Mindstorms, and send it to a NoSQL database (MongoDB, actually). Data is consolidated using MapReduce jobs (remember this EclipseCon US 2011 keynote?), and we want you to use all this information to build something innovative and interactive: smartphone application, augmented reality, cool data visualization… Unleash your creativity!
We also think that there are a few Eclipse technologies that you can bring into play to create something even cooler: BIRT charts, Nebula widgets, ECF XMPP provider to post notifications via Instant Messaging, …

The winner will get an iPad2 !

Simulated data is available if you want to start working on your application already. We will drop all the fake data just before the conference starts, and you will then have access to real, live data instead.
Also, keep looking at the contest documentation page to get the most up-to-date information. In particular, we are still polishing a few things regarding SMS interactions, and an RFID scanner that should allow you to come up with applications even more close to real-life use cases. Stay tuned!

For the record, here is how my desk looks like just now… 😀 My colleagues would certainly say it is just a little bit messier than usual, but…

Oh, and for all of you interested in geeky electronics stuff, Arduino, and Open Source Hardware, just don’t miss David Cuartielles keynote on Wednesday! But that’s a keynote, so you will be there anyway, right? 🙂

 

 

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Eclipse

Activate links to Eclipse bugzilla on git.eclipse.org

If you are running Chrome, or Firefox with the GreaseMonkey plug-in, then you may want to install this very simple extension that will detect when an Eclipse bug is mentioned in a commit message displayed in the git.eclipse.org web frontend.

You will end up with clickable links for every “bug XXXXXX” encountered in a commit message.
Enjoy! 🙂

// ==UserScript==
// @name          git.eclipse.org bug reference detector
// @version       0.1.0
// @licence       EPL v1.0 - http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
// @namespace     http://www.github.com/kartben
// @description   Make references to Eclipse bugs clickable in git.eclipse.org Web UI
// @include       http://git.eclipse.org/*
// ==/UserScript==

var nodes = document.evaluate(
    "//div[@class='commit-subject'] | //div[@class='commit-msg'] | //a",
    document,
    null,
    XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
    null);
    
if (!nodes) return;

for (var i = 0; i < nodes.snapshotLength; i++) {
    node = nodes.snapshotItem(i);
    node.innerHTML = node.innerHTML.replace( /.*(bug ([0-9]+))/ig,
        " <a style=\"border: dotted 1px #DAA520; background: #FAFAD2; font-size: inherit;\" " +
        "    href=\"https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=$2\">$1</a>");
}