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Machine-2-Machine (M2M) or the Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology area and industry that is growing very quickly, has a lot of great potential but I am not sure is understood very well by the software industry. We are lucking to have at Eclipse a very active M2M Industry...

About a month ago, Sierra Wireless proposed a new project under the umbrella of the M2M Industry Working Group that aims at delivering a crucial missing piece to the global architecture of the open source M2M stack this Group is trying to establish. Mihini is a runtime technology that hides...

Sometimes open source projects lose steam. This is the way of things. Developers get pulled off projects. Sometimes the resulting gaps get filled naturally. Diversity in a project is one way of making sure that gaps fill naturally: if the developers from one organization lose interest, then developers from an...

I spent my day today at OSCON 2012. I took the opportunity to attend talks on subjects that I don’t normally get to spent a lot of time with. The quality varied (I was shocked–shocked, I tell you–to learn that mining data out of arbitrarily-formatted HTML is “hard”). I spent...

We are planning to hold an Eclipse Finance Day in Zurich Switzerland on October 16, 2012. The Finance industry is a huge user and adopter of Eclipse, so hosting an Eclipse Day is a great opportunity to learn from your industry peers and discover what else is possible with Eclipse...

I’ve proposed a session titled “ Revise the Eclipse Development Process” for EclipseCon Europe 2012: It’s time to revise the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). In this interactive session, we’ll discuss how we can revise and modernize the EDP. This is intended to be the continuation of an ongoing discussion that...

Seventy-two (72) projects signed up to participate in the Juno Simultaneous Release. Some of these projects include one or more subprojects with their participation. Effectively, this means that some subprojects have joined their parents in the release (joint IP Log and release review). In many cases, the related projects share...

At the end of the Eclipse Community Survey we ask for general comments and suggestions about Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation. I decided to respond and highlight some of them. I want to know about e4 more detail. But I feel those information don’t meet my expectation. So please give...

Two years of experience doesn’t make you “senior”. Except maybe in high school. I don’t mean this in a negative sort of way. I mean it in a trying-to-help-you-out sort of way. I’ve worked for a relatively small number of companies in my twenty-plus years of professional life. Small by...

Each year we survey the Eclipse community to gather some insight into what developers are doing with Eclipse and open source. We have published the results and the detailed data is available [ xls] [ ods]. Embedded version of the report is at the end of this post. Each year...