Mike Milinkovich's blog

    Adobe Developer Summit

    Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 16:51 by Mike Milinkovich
    Now there’s a company that know how to treat its developers. 2400 hundred technical people (1200 from out of town) all in the San Jose Convention Centre. That is a non-trivial investment of time and money into team building. But if you’re going to work in a distributed environment, it...

    Eclipse for the World

    Friday, February 3, 2006 - 13:00 by Mike Milinkovich
    Perhaps it’s because of my recent trip to China, but it is becoming increasingly clear that internationalization is a very big deal for everyone in the software world. The ability to fully enable products and applications for double-byte and bi-directional languages is key. Enter ICU4J . One look at the...

    Election Time

    Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 12:27 by Mike Milinkovich
    It’s February so that means its election time in the Eclipse community. Each year, the committer community and the add-in provider community vote for their representatives on the Eclipse Board of Directors . The number of elected reps is calculated using a formula based on the number of strategic members...

    A Comic Moment

    Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 01:05 by Mike Milinkovich
    I finally have a moment — and the picture thanks to John — to mention this truly comic moment in Beijing. As John Kellerman and I were doing our lightning tour of the Forbidden City, this class of girls came up and asked to get their picture taken with us...

    Brand Hijacked

    Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 15:07 by Mike Milinkovich
    I’ve been noticing an interesting trend in the worldwide ecosystem growth of Eclipse. No longer content with just focusing on software and developer tools, the Eclipse community has begun to branch out into new areas. Among them: UK-based courier services and Canary Island real estate. As evidence, take a look...

    Eclipse in Bejing

    Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 08:55 by Mike Milinkovich
    I’m heading to the airport soon, and wanted to blog about the week before leaving. I’ve been in Bejing this week for the first annual Eclipse Day in China. This event was hosted by Tsinghua University , the premier technical university in China. (Sometimes referred to as the “MIT of...

    Question Conventional Wisdom

    Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 20:43 by Mike Milinkovich
    As already referenced by Bjorn and Ward , this article by John Mark Walters makes for some very interesting reading. I highly recommend it, and I am already looking forward to reading the next one in his series. The article has some interesting implications for Eclipse. I would venture to...

    Java Detour

    Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 21:16 by Mike Milinkovich
    After the Eclipse Board and Council meetings I headed down to San Diego to meet with the Executive Committees of the Java Community Process . I was there to have a conversation on what Eclipse is and what we do. On the way to SFO, we drove by this coffee...

    Eclipse Meetings

    Friday, December 16, 2005 - 00:22 by Mike Milinkovich
    Every once in a while we try out something new and it really works well. Some months back I realized that Bjorn booked the Council meetings the same week as the Board meeting. It’s hard for me to be in two places at once. The solution? Co-locate the two meetings...

    Phoenix Rises

    Friday, November 25, 2005 - 15:20 by Mike Milinkovich
    We’re getting close to the final countdown for our first release of Phoenix on Nov. 30th. Or, in other words, finally switching the www.eclipse.org home page over to our new look and feel. The look and content have really come together in the last couple weeks and days. There’s nothing...