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I’ve been tinkering on-and-off for a couple of years on some Eclipse-based presentation software. My primary motivation is my distrust of existing presentation software. Curiously, I get a new head of steam on the “project” every time PowerPoint or Open Office fries one of my documents. Last week was one...

It is with great pleasure that I welcome Gunnar Wagenknecht to the Technology Project‘s Project Management Committee (PMC). Gunnar’s name is no-doubt familiar to many of you: he is a very active member of the Eclipse Community and a prolific contributor (and, based on the pictures on his blog, he...

Bjorn and guests have been blogging about the results of the recent committer satisfaction survey at Eclipse. I think that the survey itself embodied genius in its simplicity: one question on “…how happy are you with the Foundation’s support of you and your project?” As the Executive Director, I am...

We have what has been referred to as an “ embarrassment of riches” in Eclipse Corner. We have a lot of articles that are either in development, or are ready for publishing. The problem is that we have a bit of a shortage of reviewers and editors. Perhaps one of...

The SWT Graph Source Forge project provides some pretty sophisticated interactive graphical technology for Eclipse RCP-based applications. The sample images shown on the examples page are pretty cool, but the description of the underlying technology seems even cooler. Layered canvases are a natural and very powerful extension to SWT. It’s...

Ingress CAFÉ (Consolidated Application Foundation for Eclipse) was selected as the Best Application Development Tool at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this week. Congratulations!

Dmitry Leskov introduced me to Excelsior JET at JavaOne this year. Excelsior JET 6.5 will enable you to compile your Eclipse RCP application to a native code executable and distribute it without the original class/jar files. My first question, when Dmitry showed me JET in action was whether or not...

I generally enjoy reading Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog. Yesterday his post, Quantity Always Trumps Quality, made me think of two things. First, the thoughts conveyed are exemplified at Eclipse: we value code over specifications; code is written, mistakes are made, lessons are learned, and everything gets better in the...

Try this in Eclipse Ganymede (one of the variants that includes the Java development tools): Copy this text: System.out.println(new Date()); Bring the Package Explorer into focus (make sure that none of the existing projects is highlighted) and select “Paste” from the context menu. JDT will build the project, package, class...

There’s something about the Java Forum Stuttgart conference that I really like. The conference is a little on the large size (I believe that I heard that there were 1,200 attendees) which gives the exhibit area a really busy feel. Good busy. As a speaker, I can’t say enough about...