Wayne Beaton's blog

If you’ve found the “Colors and Fonts” page in the Eclipse Workspace Preferences, then you already know that you can customize Eclipse to look as awful as you’d like. Or maybe you went different route and changed the colors and fonts to better suit your personal tastes. Many aspects of...

Aaron Farr is an Eclipse RCP expert who has worked on numerous Eclipse RCP applications for various organizations around the world. In this podcast, he discusses some of his experiences with Eclipse RCP. You can listen the podcast here. The podcast feed on the Eclipse Resources page has also been...

I just love saying “TPTP”. Of all the projects we have here at Eclipse, TPTP is the one that has the the most entertaining title. Probably my second favourite project name is “ Buckminster” (though “ Higgins” is also pretty entertaining and conjures up images from Magnum PI). But anyway...

I added this image of Eclipse 3.3M6 running on Windows Vista to the Eclipse Screenshots page. In the process, I’ve started to revamp the page. I’m thinking it’s a little too cluttered: less is more, right? Right. The image… It looks pretty good. It looks as Vista as everything else...

I actually had somebody say this to me: “I can’t use a distro of Eclipse. My boss demands that we only use ‘official’ software from the eclipse.org site. By the way, does it work on Debian Linux?” The blogging recently about including Subversion support in the Eclipse SDK made me...

I’ve been pretty quiet lately for a couple of reasons. I’ve been spending a great deal of time over the last two weeks preparing for Eclipse Forum Europe ( EFE) this week. I arrived in Germany a little earlier today; with my presentations pretty much good-to-go and all domestic responsibilities...

Don’t forget to vote for your favourite Eclipse-based technologies in the latest run of the JDJ Readers’ Choice Awards.

Ian announced the availability of Eclipse Live last week. The first big event on Eclipse Live is a webinar by the Device Software Development Platform ( DSDP) Project titled “ The DSDP Target Management Project” on April 12, 2007. Here’s the abstract: “The Target Management project provides a framework, widgets...

I’m up to reason seven in the “ Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse” posted by Renaud Waldura (my discussion of the previous six reasons can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6). I have to admit that this is one of my favourite reasons. One aspect of...

Dr. Margarent-Anne (Peggy) Storey is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria. In this podcast, Peggy discusses GILD, the IDE based on Eclipse developed at the University of Victoria to introduce new students to software development. She also discusses the Zest project and introduces TagSEA, a “a...