Wayne Beaton's blog

I only managed to catch a few minutes of the Halo Challenge yesterday at EclipseCon. When I left, Doug was taking on seven challengers and was beating them handily (all the while yelling, “I’m in the bunker, no… the other … Continue reading →

Janet, Bjorn, and I made a poster describing the Eclipse legal process. It’s pretty complex. Janet printed up a 3’x4′ poster for the exhibit hall at EclipseCon. It looks a lot cooler in “freakin’ huge” size…

Yesterday, I spoke with dozens of folks doing great things with Eclipse technology. One pretty common theme–one that I’ve seen repeated in far too many places–is hesitation to report bugs. Everybody gives a different reason for not reporting bugs. Some simply don’t know how. Some figure that their bugs will...

Kim tells me that she added a little something special to today’s Eclipse integration build. The splash screen features none other than SWT’s own Steve Northover posing with the nice models that NetBeans is sponsoring for the week (or the last couple of days anyway). See for yourself… it’s in...

I suggested earlier that I hadn’t yet seen any girls with love in their eyes or flowers in their hair. It turns out, I just missed ’em (okay, so there were no flowers and more of a vacuous look, but I’ll take it).

The BoF sign up board has arrived and is in the Registration area. If you’d like to host a BoF, there are forms attached to the board for you to fill out (you only need to fill out the front of the form, the back is just the result of...

I’ve been in California for almost a whole day now, and I have yet to see a girl with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair… I spent my morning today dropping into the various tutorials to see how folks were doing and helping out where I could...

I’m getting read to fly out to Santa Clara on Sunday for EclipseCon 2006. This will actually be my first EclipseCon. I never did get a chance to attend in my previous job, but now that I’m the Eclipse Evangelist, attending comes as part of the job. I’ve attended dozens...

Last week, I blogged about some work that I’m doing with Eclipse Monkey. I finally found a few minutes to wrap it all up into an RCP application. In doing so, I did have to refactor the Eclipse Monkey code a bit. These changes are focused primarily on extracting the...

Got a PHB who needs to know–in non-technical terms–why you should be adopting RCP? Jeff has made the forward from the Eclipse Rich Client Platform book available. In it, Jeff Norris from NASA explains how his organization benefitted from RCP. It’s available here (in PDF format). And by-the-way… I use...