Hackathon

The source for

Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 17:42 by Wayne Beaton
The source for the Eclipse Project Handbook is in AsciiDoc format (rendered using Asciidoctor via Maven), and includes embedded Graphviz graph descriptions (which are rendered into embedded images). Proofing those images is a bit of a pain: it requires that I actually build the handbook and use a browser to...

Platform and Java development tools at the EclipseCon Europe Hackathon

Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 15:42 by Wayne Beaton
We have a handful of committers from the Eclipse Platform and Java development tools (JDT) projects ready to help you fix bugs at the EclipseCon Europe 2015 Hackathon. Dani Megert (Eclipse Platform and JDT), Noopur Gupta (JDT UI committer), and Olivier Prouvost (Eclipse Platform UI) have all agreed to attend...

Common Build Infrastructure at the EclipseCon Europe 2015 Hackathon

Monday, September 14, 2015 - 10:26 by Wayne Beaton
The Common Build Infrastructure (CBI) is an Eclipse project that provides a collection of build technology, infrastructure, and practices for building Eclipse software. If you’re building Eclipse plug-ins, this is something that you need to investigate. CBI leverages Maven and Tycho to build project artifacts from source, and Hudson to...

Create your Project Import Set up at the EclipseCon Europe Hackathon

Thursday, September 3, 2015 - 23:40 by Wayne Beaton
Eclipse Mars has this great new feature that you may have missed: the Oomph Project Importer will configure your Eclipse workspace with everything you need to hit the ground running quickly. You can open this by selecting the Projects into Workspace importer via the File > Import… menu. The importer...

Introducing the EclipseCon Europe 2015 Hackathon

Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 15:52 by Wayne Beaton
Alternate title: I Went to EclipseCon Europe and What I Saw There Blew My Mind… EclipseCon has great tutorials and sessions. The speakers are second-to-none, and the networking opportunities are fantastic. if you’re looking for it, you’ll find software developers doing amazing things together. For EclipseCon Europe 2015 , we’re...