I am not an entrepreneur but Jeff Nolan’s post titled “Pick Your VC Carefully” is very good.
October, 2004
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Oct 04
hackyEclipse and CDT
As I mentioned, hackyEclipse is an Eclipse plug-in that collects productivity metrics. It gathers Activity, File Metric, and Unit Test data in Eclipse and sends to hackyStat server. The sensor used to only support JDT. I recently joined the development team of hackyStat, which is distributed under GPL licence, to add CDT to the mix.
As of now, I added support for C/C++ files and projects. Currently, hackyEclipse also gathers data on CDT regarding open/close/save actions on files or projects. It also monitors the builds and detects and records build errors. In addition, with the limited refactoring support of CDT, hackyEclipse also monitors changes on CDT elements, like addition of a new class to the project.
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Oct 04
Hackystat and Eclipse
Hackystat is an experimental testbed for personal metrics validation. There are several tool sensors for several development tools. You can read more about the tool sensors here.I am mainly interested in the Eclipse sensor, namely hackyEclipse. It is a plug-in for Eclipse and collects productivity metrics about the developer’s usage of the platform. You may read about it in more detail herenIt currently supports only the Java Development Tool. However, I am in the process of developing C/C++ Development Tool functinality. More on that will come later.
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Oct 04
Acrobat Reader Speedup
I use Acrobat Reader quite a lot and I always complain how slow it starts up. It is because the amount of plug-ins that it loads during startup most of which I never use or need. Today, I learned about a handy tool which configures Acrobat Reader to startup faster. You can download it here.