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We are just a few weeks away from our second annual Eclipse Summit Europe event. Last year’s event was an outstanding gathering of the Eclipse community, and I am definitely looking forward to this year’s as well. ESE is a little bit different from EclipseCon, and in some ways even...

Tomorrow we are issuing a press release announcing the PHP Development Tool (PDT) 1.0 release; some of the coverage has already come out. There is an estimated 4.5 million PHP developers, so this project is a great opportunity to expand the overall Eclipse community. Congrats to the PDT team for...

The great thing about the Eclipse community is the local events that are organized. For instance, the second annual Eclipse Now You Can is being held in Paris on October 12. A great opportunity for the Eclipse community in France to meet.

The program and registration system is now open for OS Summit Asia. As a reminder this is a conference that Apache and Eclipse are organizing in Hong Kong. There is a really strong program featuring Eclipse and Apache committers; some Eclipse highlights include: Chris Aniszczyk is presenting a full day...

I noticed today, while browsing through Eclipse Plug-in Central ( EPIC), that CloudGarden has released a new version of their Jigloo SWT/Swing GUI Builder. Jigloo, which can be easily added to your Eclipse-based IDE via update site, provides support for building user interfaces in SWT or Swing. It supports the...

I’ve been working on a tutorial titled “ Europa World Tour” that I’m delivering at EclipseWorld in November. This, frankly, is a huge challenge: nobody wants to sit and listen to me drone on about 21 different projects for an entire day. I believe that doing so would constitute cruel...

Last Friday, I spoke with Ralph Mueller, Director of Eclipse Eco-System Development in Europe about the upcoming Eclipse Forum Europe (ESE) 2007 Conference being held on October 10-12 in Ludwigsberg, Germany. You can listen to the conversation here. More podcasts can be found on the Eclipse Live site and newsfeed...

Two weeks ago, I informed the EMO of my intent to propose a new “Eclipse Examples Project” (EEP! for short). I had tried to work out a name that would result in the acronym “EEK”, but I couldn’t make it work (but I digress). The idea behind the project is...

Matt Assay is suggesting Mozilla should be more like Eclipse, specifically in terms of promoting commercial development on top of Firefox. Well sometimes I wish Eclipse was more like Mozilla. Things like SpreadFirefox, the scale of Firefox adoption and the revenue Mozilla generates is fantastic. Something I wish we could...

“Inside the Memory View: A Guide for Debug Providers” by Samantha Chan has been published. This article discusses—oddly enough—how to use and extend the Memory View. The abstract states: There are many programming languages that allow access and discrete control of system memory. If you are a debug provider for...