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:Author: 		lapis
:Date:			Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:34:43 +0100
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Advanced Eclipse Workshop (IPC Spring Edition 2010)
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:Keywords: 
  international, PHP, conference, IPCSE, IPC, 2010, eclipse, workshop, training, PDT, xDebug, phpDocumentor, PTI, phphatesme, 

:Description:
 
:Abstract:
  As I already mentioned in a former article Nils Langner and I gave a workshop about advanced
  Eclipse Topics. As we wanted to cover all the cool stuff, we certaily had to ask Sven Kiera to
  introduce his PHP Tool Integration (PTI). Read this article how it turned out.


Starting on 9.15hrs that early sunday morning Nils_, Sven_ and I where faceing about 16 attendees to
our 'Advanced Eclipse' workshop at the IPCse_. 

.. _Nils: http://phphatesme.com
.. _Sven: http://phpsrc.org
.. _IPCse: http://phpconference.de


|IPC2k10SeLogo|

.. |IPC2k10SeLogo| image:: ../images/speakerButtons/ipc10s_button_speaker_en.jpg
                   :alt: Logo of IPC2k10 SE conference
                   :target: http://it-republik.de/php/phpconference/
                   :class: right
                   
After a short introduction of ourselfs, Nils gave a short introduction about the eclipse workspace 
and it's not so often used or obvious features like working sets and the possibiility to run builds
only in their scope, and so on.
Impressingly most of the people in the audience had a well prepared laptop to follow the tutorials 
and workflows we showed in our presentation. Nevertheless the interest in a live DVD I prepared was 
very high and at the end there were only one DVD left.

As I wrote in the teaser_ to this event we put a lot of topics on the agenda for this workshop.
Since we only had about 4 hours the decision what topics are the most interesting were found by 
a quick vote of the attendees at the begining of the workshop.

.. _teaser: http://blog.bastian-feder.de/blog/017_ipc2k10SE.html

Surprisingly the debugging capabilities of eclipse in combination with Xdebug_ won the vote right 
before the Validators, Templates, and Shortcuts. The abstract about the External Tools Framework and
the Subversion integration via Subversive were declined with about two votes. 

.. _xDebug: http://xdebug.org

Sven took over for a short introduction and founding a base of the terminology of PTI which was used
for the validators to be integrated in Eclipse.So again Nils began to talk about the validators first. 
In his presentation he indroduction he showed how to configure them, and how to write your own 
validator in PHP using the PHP Tool Integration plugin as platform.


After lunch I started with the elected main topic of the workshop: Debugging inside of 
Eclipse. In my presentation I gave a short introduction about the different types of debugging and how to
use them in Eclipse. I also showed the different ways to start a debugging session and how to navigate
through it. 


At the end of the workshop Nils and I wrapped up the other two topics (Templares and Shortcuts) by 
giving a handson how to define your own templates and shortcuts in eclipse. We also talked about their 
benefits and where it is useful to use them.


Last but not leased I want to thank all participants of the workshop and want to invite you to give
us feedback_. Only with your constructive feedbak we can evolve and make it more worthwhile for you
attending our talks. Thank you in advance.

.. _feedback: http://joind.in/talk/view/1749

I had a great time and hopefully we could ease you daily work with the Eclipse IDE. Hope to see you 
in october at the IPC or WebTechCon_.

.. _WebTechCon: http://webtechcon.de


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- Hari K T at Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:39:21 +0200

  I think your session for osidays too will be same right ? Hope to see you
  there :) .

  By the way Welcome to India . . . .

- lapis at Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:50:01 +0200

  Hey Hari, as I am doing this on my own, it will be slightly different. But
  the main topics like Debugging, Subversion, etc will be available for your
  choice.

  Thx for the warm welcome.