Blog Posts

Last week, I wrote about a new report I added for the UDC data that shows project pairings “in the wild”. In a comment, Nick effectively killed my weekend. Nick, my wife’s not happy with you. I showed her your picture. Be careful. The report can now be sorted on...

Mustafa has posted a cool screencam of shared editing using Eclipse. He and a friend, Thomas, chat via Skype while they work together on the same file in shared editor. It’s about as good as real side-by-side pair-programming… It may even be a little better (though pair-programming traditionalists may baulk...

Next week I get to attend two Ganymede Demo Camps. The first being the Eclipse Day at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA. Unfortunately, the event is full so we are not accepting any more registrations. The second demo camp will be on Thursday here in Ottawa. We still have...

Elias posted this note on the Riena Dev list. I think it’s interesting reading that deserves a broader audience. So… here it is. — From my personal point-of-view (having done a couple of RCP projects) the benefit of Riena that is important to *me* is, that Riena will provide a...

I decided that it might be cool to find out which projects are being used together in the wild, so I wrote a new report using data collected by the Usage Data Collector (UDC). The report shows a table where each row contains a pair of projects and a number...

Vous aviez peut-être pu remarquer qu’un concours avait été lancé il y a quelques semaines par Nick Boldt pour que les membres de la communauté Eclipse réalisent des posters pour la sortie de Ganymede. La soumission de posters est désormais terminée : vous pouvez les voir ici, et voter pour...

Matt Assay recently covered the Accenture / SpringSource announcement about Spring Batch. Matt is absolutely correct in pointing out that the real news is that Accenture is actively and publically helping to support SpringSource in the project. This is really great news and I hope to see more. However, the...

Kirk Knoernschild from Burton Group has published the results to an informal survey he fielded on OSGi usage. I don’t think Kirk or anyone would claim this is a statistically significant survey or the sample was unbiased but I do think it raises some interesting results. The majority of people...

Occasionally we get questions along these lines on the newsgroups: Does anybody know how X is coded in Eclipse? The simple answer is yes. Everybody can know how it’s coded. The source code is out there for all to see. You have a couple of choices when it comes to...

Ganymede RC4 packages are hot off the press and available for download. btw, do you want to be at the front of the line to download the final Ganymede release? Denis is going to allow Friends of Eclipse early access to the Ganymede download server while the mirrors are synchronizing...