Coaching for people managers

Last three months have been like a roller-coaster to say the least, to learn lot new things, mastering the existing and come up renovating yourself. The time we developed FID 1.2 which is open source and available for free download. The key feature shipped with FID1.2 is EIP Editor (to know about FID and EIP editor go to FUSE Team blogs ) and i got a chance to work on it to enhance the look and feel of the editor. The task was to make the shadowed figures of shapes likes Rectangle, circle, diamond etc using draw2d API. And since designing and development was proceeding hand-to-hand, their were lot of changes in colors and sizes so effectively we needed to design a system or framework which reflect requirement changes in no time. Following are some frequent requirement changes: Change the gradient colors (which includes start color and end color) New shapes diamonds, rounded rectangle etc. Change in sizes of the figures both width, height, insets etc. Clearly you can't j

Master-Detail Eclipse Forms I just finished working on the editor which uses the Master-Detail pattern of the eclipse forms. During which I faced several problems like: In my master block, when the size of table-viewer increased, the master block shows the scrollbar instead of table-viewer. Also, it made the length of the detail and master parts equal which made my editor unusable Detail part having scroll problems like the one mentioned above Setting the details part data-dynamically was yet another area where I faced a lot of problem In this blog, I will be giving a brief introduction about the master-detail pattern and will be addressing the problems mentioned above. The article by Dejan Glozic is really helpful and explains the basics of the eclipse forms. I’ll be explaining the stuff using FUSE Integration Designer(FID) which is an open source and available for download . And the screen-shots will be from the Messaging module of the FID using the example of JMS Messages . In