Blog Posts

The most difficult aspect of developing an IoT solution is probably that one has to deal with the –embedded– hardware that will eventually run the application that talks to the sensors, thermostats, car entertainment, etc. Embedded is definitely complex: the resources are limited, the development tooling usually sets you back...

I’m very happy to introduce the Eclipse Foundation’s newest staff member, Richard Burcher. Richard will be helping me with “project stuff”. If you take a quick look at Richard’s blog or Twitter feed, you’ll notice that he’s got a an affinity for location/geo-sorts of things in particular and open source...

Thank you to everyone who attended EclipseCon, especially our speakers. The speakers spend a lot of time preparing for the conference and make the event a huge success. Therefore, I’d like to highlight some of the more popular sessions and speakers. Most popular sessions (based on attendance) New Features in...

The is a LOT of hype around the Internet of Things (IoT). Lots of vendors selling proprietary solutions that have very little to do with the Internet of Things but everything to do with locking customers into a single solution. If we are going to have a truly open Internet...

On March 19, we were very lucky to host a great IoT event during EclipseCon 2014. I think everybody in the room that day learnt a lot about the current challenges for IoT, and our speakers really did a good job at presenting the challenges for building an open, interoperable...

You may already know that April 9 is the International IoT Day, with events organized all around the world. Together with Postscapes, we are organizing an online conference called IoT Live that very same day, with a great lineup of speakers from all around the world! I am really looking...

Two weeks ago at EclipseCon 2014, I spoke with Kai Kreuzer. Check out our interview and learn more about Eclipse SmartHome and its great community! The post Interview with Kai Kreuzer @ EclipseCon 2014 appeared first on Benjamin Cabé.

As with all good things, the time has come to give the eclipse.org web site a new look and feel. A lot has changed since the existing web site was launched over 5 years ago. Eclipse itself has evolved to bea large community of open source projects. The Eclipse Working...

Last week at EclipseCon we announced the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. We have so many amazing community members but it is nice to recognized some who have really made a difference. This year the winners were: 1. Top Newcomer Evangelist: Dani Megert. Dani has been doing an amazing...

Edit: I recommend that you just update to the Luna release. While we’re pretty sure that this still works, it’s not a configuration that we test anymore. Want to add Java 8 support to Kepler? Java 8 has not yet landed in our standard download packages. But you can add...