Sandarenu's Blog

Yesterday I downloaded the new version of Eclipse IDE; Eclipse Kepler.


So far the experience is great. It is much faster than Juno. Main problem I had with Juno is that it is damn slow even with the updates provided later by eclipse to fix the slowness issue. But Kepler seems to have fixed all those issues properly.

Most notable improvement for me so far is the improved Eclipse Marketplace. Now we can select multiple plugins once and do the installation together.  Previously we had to install plugins one-by-one. And also conflict resolution related to plugin installation had been improved. Previously when there is a conflict, eclipse only tell that installation cannot be completed, but now it says exactly which plugin causes the problem and gives option to continue installation without it.

One problem I had was that there is no official support for Scala-IDE for Kepler. But managed to find a scala-ide build from scala-ide google group. It was working fine, so until official version is available I'll be able servile with it.

Google has announced that they are going to discontinue Google Reader from 1st of July 2013. It is really sad news since I use reader everyday to keep up-to-date with various blogs.

After seeing this news, first thing I wanted to do was to find and alternative. First one I came across is Feedly.  It is a web based reader and has plugins for chrome, firefox, safari and apps for android and iOS. Best thing with Feedly is that you can login with Google account and it will automatically import all your feeds from Reader. After getting used to the UI, it seems to be really nice tool. For the moment I'm going to use Feedly.

I'm also thinking about finding a good desktop reader as well. Since I'm using Linux there are lot of readers available. Have to try some and find a good one.