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We all had such a great time at the Devoxx4Kids session in San Jose this past March that we’ve decided to try running a session here in Ottawa. The goals and mission of Devoxx4Kids is to: Teach children Computer Programming while having fun and introduce them to concepts of robotics...

One of my favourite literary quotes comes from Canadian author, Hugh MacLennan. “But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in...

I’ve been asked about the technology used in the new Eclipse Project Handbook. The content itself is specified in Asciidoc format and rendered into HTML using Asciidoctor. I started off using Asciidoc for rendering, but changed after I ran into a couple of bugs and problematic licensing. The content is...

The Eclipse Planning Council—with help from the community—is trying to sort out the name for our eleventh named simultaneous release in 2016. We had some trouble with the first set of names that we selected, and so we’re into the second round. The “Eclipse Lynn” Lobby has significant momentum. We...

I regularly receive requests for quotes from purchasing agents for Eclipse software. In almost every case, they’re looking for an Eclipse-based IDE, but don’t quite know what to call it. Today’s gems are: Eclipse CDT Juno Eclipse Eclipse 352 Eclipse Eclipse JSEE Juno Eclipse software Version: Indigo Release Eclipse Java...

The cornerstone, I think, of a good April Fools Day joke is plausibility. The more reasonable or possible the topic, the more likely it is that you’ll fool somebody. I’m not sure what it says about the Eclipse Foundation that so many people really thought that we’d made a decision...

During a meeting yesterday, I was forced to think about the scene (not entirely safe for work) in Monty Python’s Life of Brian when the protagonist is introduced to the People’s Front of Judea. In this meeting we were discussing the creation of a new open source foundation. What made...

I rediscovered an “IDE Hot Topic” yesterday: line numbers in the editor. For me, this rediscovery started with a Tweet: @ashwhite: To me the single thing that epitomizes the shittyness of Eclipse as an IDE is that line numbers are off by default. #fb Hopefully my kids aren’t reading this...

I’m at Google IO this week. The big highlight for me today was the relatively short set played by Jane’s Addiction during the after hours party. Truth-be-told, I am also pretty stoked about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet that was given out today. I’m looking forward to seeing if...