Wayne Beaton's blog

The Eclipse Europa Reviews Contest results are in. I know that we promised three winners, but we decided in the end that there needed to be four. There were so many submissions in many different languages; it was hard to narrow the selection down to just four. I blogged previously...

I’ve been doing a little work on a problem that we’ve been having with our WordPress implementation at blogs.eclipse.org. The problem is that file uploads don’t work. That is, you currently can’t upload useful things like pictures to make your blog entries all pretty and stuff. I finally managed to...

This may seem a little odd to folks in the know, but I look forward to receiving mail from IPZilla, the system that Eclipse developers use to submit code for IP review by the Eclipse Foundation. Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of notifications about contribution questionnaires (CQ) submitted for...

I’ve spent a good chunk of the past few days reviewing the reviews. Ian has blogged several times about our little competition to award Europa reviewers with some Eclipse SWAG and a conference pass (for one lucky winner). I thought that I’d spend a few minutes discussing my selection process...

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.

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...

The second annual Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) takes place October 9-11, 2007 at Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, which is in the Stuttgart region of Germany. ESE is the Eclipse Foundation’s premier event designed to create opportunities for the European Eclipse community to explore, share, and collaborate on the latest...

The PHP Development Tools ( PDT) Project has been hard at work producing the next version of some excellent tools for building PHP applications. I have been using the 1.0M1 release (the PDT downloads page points to their update site) for a few weeks now and am really impressed. Here’s...

It’s long past time to continue on a path I started down some time ago. About four years ago, Renaud Waldura posted a blog entry titled “Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse”. A few months back, I started reviewing the ten reasons to see what’s changed. My previous entries are here...