Blog Posts

Mylar focuses you on your task. I’m starting to think of this in terms of top down development. I’ve always done software development using a top-down or "needs driven" approach. That is, I’ve always started by building the tests, then the layer being tested, followed by subsequent underlying layers. I...

Automagic Java Method Folding. As you navigate through your class, Mylar keeps track of the methods you touch (thereby expressing interest). When you open the class, it automatically folds away the methods you aren’t interested in. Of course, the more time you spend with your cursor in a method, the...

In the past two days, I’ve come across two new interesting RCP applications. Collaber is a collaboration framework that is built on RCP. One point of interest is that is seems to be developed in Hyderabad, India. It really seems like the Eclipse community is growing strong in India. Wazaabi...

I’ve been using Mylar for about two weeks and I’m still really impressed. I have been doing some Java development these past weeks, but most of my work has involved editing PHP files and triaging Eclipse Corner Articles bugzilla entries. I’ve been doing it all with Mylar. The first thing...

Cote from Redmonk has written an interesting article about ALM tools for Agile programming. He points out that Mylar looks like an interesting platform for integrating tools, people and processes. The last couple of weeks I’ve been spending a fair bit of time talking to people about Mylar and listening...

Well at least he got honourable mentioned as one of the top system admins out over 5000 nominees. Congratulations to Denis. He certainly deserves it.

It’s been almost two decades since I’ve written anything in FORTRAN. And to be honest, that something was a single program and I can’t quite remember what it was (I think it might have been an expert system I named “ Electric Monk“, but I can’t be certain). I’ve known...

An important success of the Eclipse ecosystem is the diversity of vendors that have created Eclipse-based products and/or Eclipse plug-ins that complement Eclipse-based products. This diversity has provides IT shops and end users a wide selection of options to address their development tool requirements. A challenge of this diversity is...

For kicks last night, I decided to see how well Apache Harmony could run Eclipse. The answer is “pretty well”. The Eclipse platform itself runs very well. I edited a bunch of files, manipulated a bunch of resources, dabbled a bit with some properties and preferences, and just generally kicked...

The Linux Distros Project just passed their creation review. I think this really shows the power and breadth of the Eclipse community. All of the major Linux distros, Novell/SuSe, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, and Red Hat/Fedora are participating in this project. Their stated goal is to ‘Bring Eclipse technology to Liunx...