Blog Posts

Thanks to Darrin for the pointer to Steve Yegge’s excellent OSCON presentation on marketing and branding. A video recording of the presentation is online. There are three points from Steve’s presentation that I think are important to consider: 1) Branding is important and software people need to think about it...

For the third year, we are holding the Eclipse marketing symposium on Sept. 19 in Chicago; this is the day before the Eclipse Foundation Members’ Meeting. The idea behind the symposium is to provide a venue for the marketing and biz dev professionals an opportunity to share and learn the...

As reported on ZDNet, ‘ EMC woos Eclipse developers with cash prizes‘. EMC just announced their new Eclipse based tools. At the same time they announced a contest with a top prize of $100,000. Welcome EMC to the Eclipse community. Feel free to woo away.

We often get asked ‘How can I get training on Eclipse RCP?’ usually from developers or development managers that want to start a project using RCP. In fact, there are a number of companies in the Eclipse community that offer great Eclipse and specifically Eclipse RCP classes that are listed...

Before the launch of Europa, we started a contest to encourage the Eclipse community to write reviews about projects included in the Europa release. Anyone writing a review would receive an Eclipse shirt and the top 3 reviews would receive extra swag. So far over 50 reviews have been written...

Warning! if you have no experience building plug-ins, this post will probably mean very little to you. A few days ago, I was working with Anton, one of my Google Summer of Code students, trying to figure out how one might implement Eclipse plug-ins using scripts. More specifically, we were...

Mark Dexter has made a series of videos to help you get started with Java development using Eclipse. He’s posted the first video on YouTube. A better quality version of this first lesson, along with another 15 lessons and a companion document have been released on SourceForge.

We have just launched a new version of the EPIC home page. The focus was making it easier to navigate the plug-in catalog and place less emphasis on the news section. We also introduced a new banner, similar to the Eclipse Live style. You might notice too the icons in...

Something that a lot of people don’t understand about Eclipse Java development tools ( JDT) is that the “build” path and the “runtime” classpath are actually two different things. The “build” path, oddly enough, is used by the Java compiler when building a project. If you’re building a plain-old Java...

Registration is now open for Eclipse Summit Europe. There is a limit of 400 attendees, so register now so you won’t be disappointed and save a few Euros on the early registration fees.