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We have to great IoT events in Toulouse this week! IoT Toulouse meetup The recently created IoT Toulouse meetup group will have its first event tomorrow, Tuesday 13. Premier meetup IoT Toulouse ! Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 6:00 PM TIC Valley 425 Rue Jean Rostand 49 Members Attending Venez nombreux...

This week I was in California for the IoT DevCon. I had the opportunity to speak about Eclipse IoT and also meet a lot of interesting companies. Therefore, for my weekly IoT links instead of linking to articles on the Internet I thought I’d share with you 3 companies I...

I am pleased to announce that the dates and venue for EclipseCon North America 2015 have been selected. We are returning to the Hyatt Regency Burlingame, the site of our 2014 event, the week of March 9-12, 2015. It’s great to be returning to the Bay Area once again. I...

I regularly receive requests for quotes from purchasing agents for Eclipse software. In almost every case, they’re looking for an Eclipse-based IDE, but don’t quite know what to call it. Today’s gems are: Eclipse CDT Juno Eclipse Eclipse 352 Eclipse Eclipse JSEE Juno Eclipse software Version: Indigo Release Eclipse Java...

Here’s a quick video of the Eclipse Data Tools in action. From an “SQL Scrapbook” page, you can quickly run and see the result of SQL statements. Configuration: Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers (Luna M6) Data Tools Platform Extender SDK (Help > Install New Software…) MySQL 5.5

I was recently asked how to categorize the Internet of Things. IoT is so broad and multi-dimensional that I am not sure if there is one easy answer or set of categories. However, here is my current thinking… 1. IoT Hardware A lot of the excitement in IoT and the...

The Rapiro is a nice open-hardware robot, controlled by an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi. Earlier this week, I decided that he’d be nice if I could run Eclipse Orion directly on the robot, allowing me to write an app that would bridge the Rapiro to the Internet (there’s a...

It has been a while since I’ve posted a summary of links to interesting news in the IoT industry. A lot of interesting stuff is happening, so it is now time to get back into the habit. 1. Micorsoft and IoT Microsoft has made some very interesting announcements about their...

Last week we added a new feature to the Eclipse Project Management Infrastructure: we automatically generate a bug list for each release. The bug list is generated by matching the “target milestones” from Bugzilla to the name of the release record. So, a release named “3.5” will automatically match bugs...

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...