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I was browsing the internet today and an interesting website caught my eye. Creately offers the ability to draw diagrams online and save them. You can also collaborate and comment on diagrams. There are a range of diagrams to choose from. Flow charts, UML diagrams, Wireframes etc. You can check out the complete list here. I managed to create a small diagram in a few clicks.

Flowchart:

So the next obvious question that came to mind was, how much does a tool like this cost. Its a pretty nice tool. You can edit diagrams online, no installation, no platform dependencies etc etc. So I traversed to their pricing page which asked me to upgrade, which lead me to the payment page. And this is where it got real confusing.

Pay what you want:

Blogger, which google acquired a while back is now ten years old. Google is celebrating the 10th anniversary by distributing presents. Its been quite a journey for blogger since its acquisition and the last ten years have seen tons and tons of blogs being added to blogger.

So as I surfed the web today, like any other good internet citizen I faithfully typed google.com into the browser address bar. Here is what I saw

Google promotes reader:

Gmail, google’s popular email service took an outage today. If you want to get a hint of what kind of impact that can make, check out google trends . The top 5 search terms are about gmail being down

Google trends:

I am sure some posts will crop up with something negative to say. But show me an email service that uses ajax, tags your emails, provides chatting integrated with the browser, (oh ! I could go on) and is so reliable. When was the last time you heard about a gmail outage ? Some of the best services out there are not as reliable as the free gmail.

Google’s SLA was also broken due to the down time, which seems to have spanned about 2-3 hours. If rumors are to be believed, google is offering a 15 day service chargeback to its paying customers instead of a 3 day service chargeback that the SLA covers. That would work out to around 2$. Gmail labs also provides an offline service, so not all users may have been affected.

Eclipse is a pretty good IDE to develop java apps on. However there are some features that you might not be using every day that can save you a lot of time.

Writing your own code templates is one of them. To write your own code template do the following

Go to Window -> Preferences. Select Java -> Editor -> Templates. You can add your own templates here. Templates are nothing but the code that auto completes when you press ctrl+space. For example type syso and ctrl+space. This will automatically fill in System.out.println() into the editor.

Eclipse code templates:

Code template variables:

Eclipse can automatically fill out dynamic code by sniffing out variables in a template. Here are a few you should make yourself aware of

Which of these tools do you use to code in java ? I use myeclipse for J2EE coding and Netbeans for swing UI (which I would highly recommend.). I have worked with workshop as well.

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