Blog Posts

Technology partnering has always been an important aspect of the software industry. Customers typically want a ‘complete’ solution and look to their vendors to ensure they work well with each other. IMHO, I think Eclipse has made the partnering process a lot easier and there are two good example of...

The first hour (of four) of the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe is over. The main topic of discussion thus far has been authentication and authorization. Essentially, the concern is that of hiding (or at least disabling) features based on permissions (authorization) of the user. Several ideas have...

There will not be reserved seating and nobody will be turned away at the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe. That said, I’d like to give priority seating to those who have actual experiences to share (being as this is the focus of the workshop). I’d like to ask...

I’ve updated the RCP Experience Workshop wiki page to include a section on format. The short version is that we’re going to ask 2-3 people to stand up in front of the crowd and present their experiences with RCP. Each person will get 20 minutes. I’ve asked the folks representing...

Over the last few days, I’ve been communicating with a developer who was having trouble getting the Properties view to work with his view and objects. It turns out that the real problem was more a lack of understanding of the adapter framework. I came up with three progressive examples...

I’ve created a page for the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe on the Eclipse Wiki. Right now, the page only contains a description of the workshop and a list of the names of folks who asked to attend. The list is made from my mail log, so I...

Ralph and I attended the ECLIPSE-IT International Conference hosted by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Napoli Federico II this week in Naples, Italy. Ralph did a great presentation on building innovation networks. Mine was on one of my favourite topics: test-first development. Frankly, I’m not 100% happy...

Philippe recently asked a question which I think deserves a clear answer: .. .is the EPL just a joke, that everybody can ignore? The answer is, of course, no. We take the Eclipse Public License very seriously. There have been numerous times when we at the Eclipse Foundation been involved...

Bjorn’s recent blog titled “ Why Our Technology Is Not Enough” got me thinking that we need to encourage more face-to-face meetings of local Eclipse enthusiasts. Yes, we have the big conferences like Eclipse Summit Europe, Eclipse World, OS Summit Asia, EclipseCon, etc. but not everyone can go to those...

This is the first year for OS Summit Asia and it seems we are blazing some new territory for developer conferences in China. Aaron Farr is one of the conference organizers, is located in Hong Kong and has written an interesting blog post about how OS Summit Asia is going...