Action.IO Becomes Nitrous.IO, Raises $1M For Its Development Tools
techcrunch.com
on 04/16/2013
Excerpt: Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media, advertising, and random startups. Previously, he worked as a staff tech writer at Adweek, a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and a local government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Developer Tools, IDE
New Salesforce Eclipse Plugin Available February 15th
blogs.developerforce.com
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: If you are reading this, I can confidently address you as “programmers”, because if not, your eyes would have quickly skipped to the next item when they saw the word “Eclipse”. You, however, are not scared of Eclipse! You stare directly at it. (Note: do not stare directly at a solar eclipse. )
We will release a new version of the Eclipse plug-in for Spring ’13 on February 15th. What’s that, you say? A “silent release” with no officially sanctioned date? And a week or two after the actual release? Before you call “shenanigans” on us, please allow me to explain…
For every release of Salesforce, we release an updated version of the Eclipse plug-in.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, CRM, Eclipse, IDE, sales, SalesForce
Google Plugin for Eclipse now provides richer tooling for Cloud SQL and Google APIs - Google Developers Blog
googledevelopers.blogspot.com
on 05/05/2012
Excerpt: We are pleased to announce the latest release of Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE 2. 6) with improved tooling for Cloud SQL and Google APIs. GPE 2. 6 introduces the following features:
Tooling for using Java Persistence API (JPA) to access Cloud SQL
Importing the latest Google APIs into your GPE project
Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks are very popular in the Java community for accessing relational databases. The Eclipse Web Tools Platform offers a robust set of tools to configure and use JPA with an implementation of your choice. With the new Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) 2. 6, you can now take advantage of these tools with Cloud SQL and Google App Engine.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: This appears to be the fruit from the work Google has put into building a discovery service on top of their API infrastructure. Google has put a lot of effort into pulling together their API platform on the access, billing, legal and discovery front over the last year. Being able to use their APIs within the Eclipse IDE is definitely one of the visions of an API discovery service.
Tags: APIs, Eclipse, Google, IDE, Story
Excerpt: If you are reading this, I can confidently address you as “programmers”, because if not, your eyes would have quickly skipped to the next item when they saw the word “Eclipse”. You, however, are not scared of Eclipse! You stare directly at it. (Note: do not stare directly at a solar eclipse. ) We will release a new version of the Eclipse plug-in for Spring ’13 on February 15th. What’s that, you say? A “silent release” with no officially sanctioned date? And a week or two after the actual release? Before you call “shenanigans” on us, please allow me to explain… For every release of Salesforce, we release an updated version of the Eclipse plug-in.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, CRM, Eclipse, IDE, sales, SalesForce
