Blog Posts

At EclipseCon 2015, I spoke with Alex Blewitt from InfoQ, and gave an update on the cool stuff happening at Eclipse IoT. It is hard to believe that it is only two years since my last interview with Alex – so many new projects and companies involved today! Check out...

Last week I gave a presentation at Devoxx and shared the floor with my esteemed colleague Wayne Beaton. While he covered some of the very cool feature being baked into the Eclipse IDE for the upcoming Mars release, I did talk about the Eclipse IoT technology portfolio, in particular what...

You can edit Markdown, along with other types of wiki markup, directly in Eclipse. Here’s a screenshot of the Markdown editor in action: Edit Markdown directly in Eclipse Note the “Preview” tab which will show you what the page looks when rendered. This support is provided by the Mylyn Docs...

Here is the recording of my presentation on Device Management with LwM2M at FOSDEM’15. Abstract: LwM2M is a standard for device management that solves many of the issues M2M and IoT solutions makers have faced in the past (or, let’s be realistic, are still facing), with custom protocols or even...

Oh boy, this has been a difficult call, but we are happy to finally be able to announce the three winners of our Open IoT Challenge! The challenge has been keeping our participants busy for two months, and I’ve already blogged about the ten awesome projects that actually completed their...

We’re pushing hard to make sure that great tools for Gradle are included with the Eclipse Mars release. The following screenshot shows my workspace after importing the Gradle Tooling API using Buildship Eclipse Plug-ins for Gradle. The Buildship project provides tools for Gradle in Eclipse. The Buildship project is producing...

Sorry, I’m a little bit late with this announcement. We have three more winners in the Great Fixes for Mars Skills Competition. In no particular order: Snjezana Peco contributed a couple of Great Fixes, but I’ll focus on the patch provided for Bug 446075: Garbled bold text when used with...

We have just published the results of the first IoT Developer Survey. There are some very interesting findings so I encourage you to check out the report. The raw data is also available [ xls] [ ods]. Internet of Things (IoT) is still relatively new and not is a lot...

I’ll admit that I’m dumbfounded by how much people care about whether line numbers are on or off by default in Eclipse. Put the cursor into the gutter area to the left of the editor and right-click to bring up the context menu, select “Toggle Line Numbers” to change the...

The Open IoT challenge ended earlier this week, and it was pretty exciting to see the final submissions coming in the form of blog posts and video during the last hours before the deadline. Below are the 10 projects who validated their participation to the challenge, together with the links...