# ePomodoro: Eclipse Plugin for Pomodoro Technique with Team Communication

After I exaplained to my actual working team how they can be more productive using the <a href="http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/">Pomodoro Technique</a>, they spent some minutes looking for an utility to use a countdown clock.

Yes guys, we are Geek! Even if we can use anything else as timer, we always look for something cool to install on our PC :D
Someone ask me if there was anything for team work: a way to show the Pomodoro timer of the others in your team to know when you could talk with them. And, after minutes of search on the net without results, I decided to spend a couple of hours to create an example of the proposed Team Pomodoro :D

So, here you are: <strong><a href="https://github.com/mmornati/epomodoro">ePomodoro</a></strong>! It's an Eclipse Plugin, so you can install it directly in your Eclipse environment (in the future I could create a stand alone application for all non-eclipse developers or non-developers ;))
In <em>Windows-&gt;Preferences</em>  Menu you can change some plugin settings like: <em>Team Name </em>and <em>Pomodoro Timer</em>. Team Name allows different team in your society: you will get just messages from your team!

At the moment, even if it works (both as a countdown clock and team message), it's just a simple raw plugin to demostrate how easy is to create something like this using the <strong>JGroups</strong> library as message broadcaster.
I'll take some of my time to add cool functions to it in the next days.

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