Nebula Gallery widget in production

Nebula gallery widget usage in a commercial quality application:

Application: PosterGenius (http://www.postergenius.com)

Install PosterGenius on Linux with no tears

A simple step-by-step guide to install PosterGenius on Linux (Ubuntu)

First of all you have to download our .deb package. The package for the moment is available for internal purposes only. But if anyone out there wants to try our early release of PosterGenius for Linux please let me know.

PosterGenius for linux will be available for free. Stay tuned, we will make it available to the public very soon.

Download
Download .deb package and save it in your hard drive.

Launch gdebi installer
I suggest the more user-friendly gtk version. Start a ternimal and type

sudo gdebi-gtk

The package installer will follow:


Point to .deb package
Use installer's File menu and point to .deb package of PosterGenius

Select PosterGenius .deb package and click "Open"

Click "Install Package"

Click "Close"

Launch PosterGenius

PosterGenius entry is available at "Applications > Graphics > Postergenius".

PosterGenius Screenshots









This blog-post as poster

Download this article as poster or/and pdf print friendly format. Both was created with PosterGenius for Linux

Install PosterGenius on Linux with no tears - Poster (pdf)

Install PosterGenius on Linux with no tears - print friendly (pdf)

PosterGenius, finalist for the eclipse community awards 2010

PosterGenius has been selected as one of the three finalists for the Best RCP Application for the 2010 Eclipse Community Awards.

Eclipse Awards Finalists 2010

Regardless of whether we will win the contest or not we already feel winners. It's a great recognition for 3 years of really hard work for one of the best team i have work with ever.

Please let me introduce this team:

• Pavlos Moustakidis
  The man with the vision to simplify poster creation process
• Stavros Kounis
  This is me.
• Sakis Kotisis
  A kick ass java programmer that join us just after the first prototype of PosterGenius. Maybe the most talented programmer i have ever meet.
• Georgos Tsopouridis
  A non-programmer that can build eclipse rcps and plugins better and faster than everyone else. Is the never-tired part of our team.
• Stefanos Manolakis
  Our rookie that easily adapt it's skills from one technology to another. Is the man that do all the dirty jobs and clean up everything.

And last but not least:

• Evangelos Karageorgos
  Our designer, marketing leader, QA leader and typography guru. We hate him. Is our nightmare. He believes that anything designed in Photoshop can be implemented in GUI.

Finally i want to give some credits to:

• Eclipse Platform
  It was our choice from the beginning. Thanks to this great technology we have reach our goals. Is the platform we can rely on.
• Eclipse Community
  Several issues in the platform have been resolved upon our requests (in bugzilla).
• Nebula Team
  Nebula Gallery is heavily used in our product.

http://www.postergenius.com

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20100305_awardsfinalists.php

http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1589

Event log stopped working - Error 1747

After a restart it was unable for my lap to establish wireless or wired networks connections.

Googling around the only solution looks to be O/S re-installation ! :-(

Thanks to Al Oliveira's post the solution was very simple:

c:>netsh winsock reset

Now everything works like a harm and i have not lost a whole day.

The fastest and easiest way to create your conference poster: PosterGenius

PosterGenius, a powerful, user-friendly software application that helps you create your scientific posters in less than 10 minutes. PosterGenius has been designed by physicians, scientists and researchers for physicians, scientists and researchers and offers a workflow tailored to the needs of the busy academic and researcher who creates scientific posters.

Why PosterGenius is the best tool for the creation of your scientific posters.

1. It separates the content from the design of your poster. Therefore, it allows you to focus on your content, while the application automatically optimizes and manages the look and feel of the poster.
2. It’s easier and faster than any other software for the creation of scientific posters.
   
3. It takes your workflow to a whole new level with its unique features such as:

• the 100+ professionally designed templates,
• the optimal reading distance indicator,
• the image optimizer that automatically positions, scales and aligns your images and captions.
  

Get the free Trial Version.

1. To get the free Trial Version of PosterGenius, visit our Download page and click on the download link.
2. After the download finishes, follow the instructions on the page, in order to install the application.

My first real contribution

After more than 10 years using open source software i'm happy to be able to contribute something back to the community.

PosterGenius, a poster creation software where i'm part of the dev team, will be available for free to all Eclipse Con 2010 accepted posters.

A 90% price off, will be available to all EclipseCon 2010 attendees.

just my 2c

Google Wave First Look

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