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So congratulations are clearly in order for Simon Phipps, one of my favourite sparring partners. I’m sure that when he started at Sun to open source Java he had no idea what a long and winding road it would be. I definitely applaud his perseverance. This was certainly a bold...

The topic of Eclipse SWAG (Souvenirs, Wearables, Accessories and Gifts) up every once in a while. There are a bunch of Eclipse shirts and hats out there already, but is there enough? Do you need Eclipse SWAG? What would you like to see: hats, shirts, monogramed undies? Are you willing...

The party pictures are starting to show up on Flickr. So far, IMHO Tel Aviv has the best swag. Check out the cool Eclipse 5 Tel Aviv T-Shirt. I am not sure who is the gentleman in the picture but I know Eden Klein from Zend organized the party. Eden...

The party at the “P” last night was good fun. In all the years (almost 30) that I’ve been going to the Prescott, I never knew they had a party room upstairs. We’re going to have to find an excuse to use that again. Here are a few more articles...

I’ll be honest. I’ve never had much time for certification. Personally, I am blissfully uncertified with an exception: by virtue of authoring an IBM Smalltalk certification test, am considered certified (actually, there were two tests). Well, that’s not totally true: I am also an “IBM Senior Certified I/T Specialist”. Though...

So five years ago today was when the download servers were turned on in the basement of the IBM OTI Labs on Queensview Drive in Ottawa. It’s been one heck of a ride. I don’t think that anyone could have predicted the success that Eclipse has enjoyed. Thanks go to...

The response has been great to the Eclipse parties. We are now up to 32 parties around the world. We just added parties in Delft, Netherlands and Munich, Germany. The party in Munich is going to be at the W-JAX conference, which is happening next week. They expect to have...

I’m a pretty interactive guy, so these webinars are pretty hard for me. I thrive on feedback from the audience. Not just questions, but the looks on faces. This sort of information can tell you if you’re reaching them or not. In the webinar format, you just have to hope...

This is pretty exciting news. Motorola is going to throw its resources behind ensuring that there is an Apache-licensed Java ME implementation. And how’s this for a quote from Mark VandenBrink: We see industry fragmentation and proprietary software models as an obstacle to unharnessing the full power of innovation in...

I have been looking around to find references to Eclipse when it was first launched. There is lots of stuff but here are some of the more interesting things: the original press release announcing the eclipse.org consortium thanks to the Wayback machine, the eclipse.org web site, circa Sept. 25, 2001...