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Next week I will be traveling to Germany for two events: 1) the OSGi community event in Berlin and 2) a Marketing Stammtisch in Bensheim/Auerbach. The OSGi event has a great technical program and I am looking forward to meeting a lot of the people in the OSGi community. OSGi...

Hockey season is just about to finish, which mean Canadians are about to begin our second season: summer. Sys-con just published a pretty good interview with Mike Milinkovich to mark his 4th anniversary at the Foundation. Among discussions on Mike’s view of ‘Strategy as Ecology’ and ‘The Stackless Stack’, Mike...

In the past couple of weeks, I have noticed CIO.com is doing a great job highlighting and educating their readers on open source software. They just published the results of a reader survey about open source adoption in the enterprise which showed 53% are using open source today in their...

I just recently agreed to be a speaker at Joel Spolsky‘s Business of Software conference in September. I guess it is in some way returning a favor, as Joel gave a very memorable keynote at EclipseCon 2006. The talk is going to be focused on providing a practitioner’s guide to...

If you take a look at some of the recent reports generated from the usage data collector, you may notice that there are a lot of custom (i.e. not from eclipse.org) views, editors, and perspectives out there, but not so many custom commands. This is merely my own observation based...

Whenever I think of p2, I just can’t shake the image of the little dog in the stories we used to make up in French class in elementary school. “Pauvre Pitou. Il a sauté par la fenêtre…” But I digress… Today I did a little experiment with p2. I downloaded...

I’ve been hacking over the last couple of days on an update to the Understanding Layouts in SWT (the original is here). I’ve had my eye on updating this article for a while, but have been skittish about tackling it because of all the screenshots. Bug 221251 forced me to...

No not that p2 – P2 the movie. Given the discussion about our p2, I just couldn’t resist. I know the p2 team is working extremely hard to make p2 a killer feature. Making any change as significant as p2 will always strike fear in people, including me. However, one...

The first thing I asked about “ 20 Things” was for the pop culture source of the title. Apparently (according to McQ), there is none. The first thing that I noticed about “20 Things” was that there are only 17 things on the list (at least there were only 17...

I sat in on the “Modeling the Workbench” breakout session at the E4 Summit. Before I go too far, it’s worth pointing out that there is a lot of activity going on here and I’m only able to capture some small part of it. The information that I’m capturing is...