Wayne Beaton's blog

I’ve created my first screen cam demonstration of Eclipse. It’s all so very exciting for me. Can you feel the excitement? This demo shows how you can use Eclipse together with JUnit to do top down development of Java code using a test first philosophy. Along the way, I make...

Last night, I posted Cliff Schmidt’s “ Open Source Licensing Explained” talk on the Eclipse Evangelism web site. This is the talk that Cliff delivered during the Eclipse in Motion Seminar series in San Diego, Dallas, Raleigh, and Atlanta. I imagine that this talk shares material with the tutorial Cliff...

“ Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs” by John Arthorne and Chris Laffra is one of my favourite books on Eclipse. I use it pretty much daily (at least I do when I’m wading into a part of Eclipse that I haven’t worked with yet). It’s true that some parts of some...

I’m gearing myself up for a lot of time on the road. I’ll be carrying the Eclipse banner to Linux World (Boston) next week where I’ll be talking about Eclipse RCP. I’ll be getting some help staffing the booth in the Expo from Eric Clayberg (Instantiations), John Graham (Sybase), and...

I presented a few slides during my short talk. I’ve uploaded them to the conference site and expect them to appear somewhere there. I’ve also posted them on the evangelism site. Due to obvious time constraints, there’s not a lot of material there. The slides are mostly scavenged from other...

So far, there’s three great bugs nominated by Eclipse developers (at least there are three at this point). I don’t imagine that one of them ( 132773) is going to get past the PMC (I’m a little distressed that it’s assigned to me), but two is a pretty good start...

In keeping with the Angelina Jolie theme established by Joel earlier in the week, I incorporated images of her and her beau in my short talk today. I tried to work in some Lynard Skynard, but could figure out how while keeping myself under the allowed nine minutes. My demonstration...

I’m surprised by the number of people who have asked for a higher resolution image of the “Eclipse Legal Process” poster that I blogged about yesterday (only two commenters on the blog, but I’ve been approached more directly by others). Okay, I’ll level with you… I’m surprised that anybody asked...

While I’m on the topic of Matisse… I spoke today with Eric Clayberg from Instantiations. Eric is superhuman. Instantiation’s Swing Designer now supports the GroupLayout layout manager that’s a huge part of fuss around Matisse (and a new addition to Mustang). It’s first class support that demos very very well...

I attended the Genuitec Reception last night at EclipseCon where they unveiled and demonstrated the integration of Matisse with their MyEclipse product. It’s a pretty cool addition to their product. Tim Boudreau, NetBeans evangelist, was in attendance and even spoke about Sun’s reaction to the integration (they were initially shocked/surprised...