A new Version (1.0.1) of our Eclipse plugin Microclipse is available for download.
With Microclipse you can send microblogging messages to Twitter or any Laconi.ca instance (including Identi.ca) directly from your Eclipse-RCP-based application.
Change log:
- You only need to enter Twitter or Laconi.ca credentials not both
- PreferencePane checks wheter you entered a tag with at least 3 characters
Please give us feedback on the new version of the plugin.
Popularity: 16% [?]
With this post we would like to introduce Microclipse, an Eclipse plugin that allows sending status updates to Twitter and any Laconica instance directly from Eclipse.
I presented the idea of microblogging in software development projects at the SENSE workshop at the Software Engineering 2009 conference and received a lot of good feedback. With the help of Christian Mletzko (Twitter, Website) we developed Microclipse as a lean plugin to any Eclipse-RCP-based platform (including the Eclipse IDE and Flex Builder).
The main requirements to Microclipse were:
- Providing a possibility to update to Twitter or a Laconica instance directly from Eclipse.
- Monitoring a specific tag directly in Eclipse.
- Lean and clear interface.
Installation and Use
Download the plugin and copy it into the plugins folder of your Eclipse-based application (we’re working on an update site). On the next start you should have a new view like this.
Now you can set your preferences for Microclipse. Microclipse can save your connection data for Twitter and one Laconi.ca instance. For each of them you can provide your username, password, the correct server url and the appropriate search base (for Laconi.ca this is where the API can be found). Lastly you can define the monitored tag (only messages containing this tag will show up in the plugin) and how many new messages you would like to see.
After you connected to a Laconi.ca instance and the first refresh your plugin will loke something like this.
When you connect to Twitter the plugin will look like this.
As of today you can download the Microclipse plugin from here. Please provide feedback on the plugin and tell us how you use it. We will use the plugin in some software courses at the University of Paderborn to enrich communication amongst student software developers. If you are interested in a study how the plugin is used in your course, just let me know.
Now enjoy the new Microclipse plugin.
Popularity: 4% [?]
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