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Yesterday, Zhiqiang Qian’s new article titled “ BIRT Extension Mechanism, Part 1: Custom Report Items” went live. The article discusses how you can extend BIRT to support new types of report items (things that you can include in your reports). The example shows how to provide support for rotated text.

I recorded this video with Gunnar discussing the Eclipse CloudFree e-commerce project a Eclipse Summit Europe 2008.

This YouTube video shows Eclipse Higgins being used to authenticate a user and grant access for that user to GMail. The video is just one of a collection of videos showing some advanced authentication mechanisms that Google research is investigating. Higgins in huge in the identity management space. The project...

Excelsior just released Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 3. With Excelsior JET, you can compile your Java- and Eclipse-based applications into a “native” executable with an embedded JRE (no external JRE required). The new version features a GUI for compiling RCP applications. Their website contains a collection of compiled open source...

The EclipseCon 2009 submission system is now open and ready for your talk proposals. Be sure to get your talk proposal in before the November 24th deadline. Now… November 24th sounds like a long way off, but it’ll be here … Continue reading →

I think we all agree that committer satisfaction is important. As the Eclipse Foundation dedicates resources into developing more and better services for committers, it behooves us to have some sense for whether or not we are indeed improving the committer experience. In order to have any sense of the...

I’ve been corresponding with a Brazilian developer who has some questions about SWT. Unfortunately, there’s a language barrier that’s preventing me from being helpful. I know that we have a fairly large contingent of committers from Brazil; does anybody out there have a few cycles that they can spare to...

Today, I am envious of the SWT developers. Clearly they have made a huge difference in at least one person’s life… Yesterday committer Scott Kovatch checked in some accessibility code for the Cocoa port of SWT. In his post to the platform-swt-dev list, he describes accessibility as an “enormous pain...

I am very happy to announce that we have a new project proposal at Eclipse. Now the fact that we have a new project proposal is not in itself very interesting. We have those all the time. What is new and interesting about this one, however, is that it is...

Next Wednesday, October 15th at 12:30pm Eastern time I will be giving my first web talk via Eclipse Live. The talk is going to be “A Practitioners Guide to Ecosystem Development”. Consider it a peak into what we at the Eclipse Foundation think about how to build and foster ecosystems...