I get a lot of email from all sorts of people looking for all kinds of help. I recently received, what I believe is the funniest one to date: I have a friend named redacted. He is evidently a master programmer, because he says so. However, his code keeps turning...
I broke Marcel’s language parser yesterday with what turns out to be an oddly-worded tweet. Use the “Projects into Workspace” import wizard to build an environment to develop Eclipse Platform UI is as long as it takes to download. — Wayne Beaton (@waynebeaton) November 2, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js It probably doesn’t...
If you are attending JavaOne this week, I want to make sure you don’t miss out on the many opportunities to learn more about Eclipse IoT, and meet the people behind it. Eclipse Foundation booth You can find us at the Eclipse Foundation booth (#5710). There will be several IoT...
I’ve had few people ask me about this error recently. So far, everybody who’s asked is using a Mac running OS X and they all seem to be running El Capitan 10.11. I’m not a Mac user myself, so narrowing down the exact symptoms was a bit of a challenge...
Just a few weeks ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that they added the ability for their customers to manage IoT solutions. More specifically, they are offering a managed IoT platform that allows to connect your devices using HTTP or MQTT, and that integrates with other AWS services to simplify...
The XML Editor is included in several of the Eclipse IDE downloads. It has two view modes: in design mode, you can edit your XML as a tree; in source mode, you edit as text. By default, it opens in design mode, which may seem a little weird (I’ve added...
Update: Note that as of October 11/2017, Java 9 is 100% supported “out of the box” by Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition; Java 9 can be used to run your Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition, and can be used to build Java 9 applications without additional configuration. Download or update today. I’ll...
A few weeks ago, Andrew called me into his office, and told me “I’m sure you’ve figured this out already, but I’m transgender.” To which I replied “Uhhh….I had no idea. ” I am so oddly oblivious to these sorts of things, it’s sad. Today Andrew becomes Andrea. What I...
The best thing about the Eclipse IoT community is that that participants real IoT practitioners and IoT experts. Our face-2-face meetings bring together senior technical leaders that are working on the core technology that is powering the IoT solutions of the present and future. This is why I am looking...
I was just asked how one can deploy a similar setup as the iot.eclipse.org MQTT sandbox, where MQTT over WebSockets is available on port 80, just like the rest of the website. There are actually two ways of achieving this. Mosquitto as the main frontend It’s a little-known fact but...