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So the staff of your friendly neighbourhood Eclipse Foundation honoured U.S. Thanksgiving last week with an afternoon of bowling. (That would be 5-pin to those not from Canada.) It was sort of like an Eclipse DemoCamp for the athletically challenged. Apparently my misspent youth was worth something after all. I...

Thanks to everyone who attended the Ottawa DemoCamp and especially the presenters. It was great to see demos of products I had not seen before, include Flex Builder, Embarcadaro’s ER Studio and Protecode’s upcoming new product. There are a lot more DemoCamps in the next couple of weeks, so if...

… EclipseCon 2008 Program Committee. I spent a couple of hours yesterday looking through the EclipseCon talk submissions, and I would definitely not want to be in charge of selecting talks. There are simply too many good ones. An embarrassment of riches. A cornucopia of technical info. 230 long talk...

People often approach the Eclipse Foundation to buy Eclipse SWAG, so we are please to announce the grand opening of the Eclipse Store. Just in time for Black Friday, you can now buy an Eclipse shirt or an Eclipse hoodie for that special someone in your life. What could be...

As some have reported, OS Summit Asia has been postponed. What hasn’t been so clear is why? The simple reason is that not enough people had registered for the conference. Hosting a conference that no one attends, is just not a good way to host a conference. The reason why...

I’ve managed to pick up some extra responsibilities for the upcoming JavaPolis 2007 conference in Antwerp, Belgium. In addition to the talk on Mylyn that I’ve been planning to do for a while now, I’ve recently been coerced (in a relatively nice way) into delivering a three hour “IDEs in...

Andrew Overholt from the Fedora team sent Wayne and myself a USBkey with the Fedora 8 Developer Spin. This morning I decided to take it for a spin. First some disclaimers, 1) I am ashamed to say that I have never installed Linux on my machine. Basically, I use the...

The submission deadline for EclipseCon talk proposals is November 19th. Get your proposal in today!

Adam Archer’s article, Eclipse Forms: New in 3.3, is now available on Eclipse Corner Articles. In this article, Adam extends the basics covered in Dejan Glozic’s Eclipse Forms: Rich UI for the Rich Client. In the article, Adam discusses the new features of Eclipse Forms, providing many examples (with screenshots).

I was asked recently if I knew of a good JSP editor for Eclipse. The easiest answer is to look at the Web Tools 2.0, part of the Europa release and available from the Europa update site, which includes a visual HTML/JSP/JSF editor. I’ve had some good experiences with this...