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    Toys for Boys

    Friday, February 15, 2008 - 14:43 by Mike Milinkovich
    The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. Sound familiar? Well Denis’ new toys arrived in the mail today. You see, Denis is 100% toy-focused. When he is not riding his snow machine (that Canadian for snowmobile) or his 4-wheeler (Canadian for ATV), Denis like...

    Fake Dan Quayle?

    Monday, February 11, 2008 - 21:23 by Mike Milinkovich
    Could one of our EclipseCon keynoters have a secret 8 year plan in the works? To be specific here I am not talking about Cory Doctorow , because, well, as far as I can tell Cory’s career path is to be Cory Doctorow. And I’m not talking about Sam Ramji...

    Super Tuesday at Eclipse!

    Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - 13:22 by Mike Milinkovich
    Well, maybe not quite “Super” The nominations for the Eclipse Foundation Board of Director elections are now posted . This is a great collection of nominees. I want to personally thank each of them for putting their names forward. Given the candidates, the Eclipse community will be well served by...

    2008 Eclipse Foundation Elections

    Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 09:35 by Mike Milinkovich
    The process of electing the 2008 board of director slots has begun. As of this moment, there will be four elected committer representatives and four elected add-in provider representatives on next year’s board. However, under our Bylaws, the final determination will be made based on the total number of strategic...

    .NET Coolness

    Monday, December 17, 2007 - 13:50 by Mike Milinkovich
    I just received one of those standard project announcements from Anne Jacko, but in it was something which really caught my eye: ——————————————————————- EMFT Project Announcement The EMFT project would like to announcement the creation of a new component, EMF4NET. The goal of EMF4Net is to enhance the Eclipse Modeling...

    We All Have Our Talents

    Monday, November 26, 2007 - 15:06 by Mike Milinkovich
    So the staff of your friendly neighbourhood Eclipse Foundation honoured U.S. Thanksgiving last week with an afternoon of bowling. (That would be 5-pin to those not from Canada.) It was sort of like an Eclipse DemoCamp for the athletically challenged. Apparently my misspent youth was worth something after all. I...

    Pity the Poor….

    Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 10:48 by Mike Milinkovich
    … EclipseCon 2008 Program Committee . I spent a couple of hours yesterday looking through the EclipseCon talk submissions , and I would definitely not want to be in charge of selecting talks. There are simply too many good ones. An embarrassment of riches. A cornucopia of technical info. 230...

    Thank You!

    Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 15:32 by Mike Milinkovich
    So according to the website , Eclipse was elected as a representative on the Java Community Process SE/EE Executive Committee. Even better, it looks like we did quite well in the voting. There is certainly no shame in getting beaten by Google I’m looking forward to participating on the EC...