Blog Posts

I noticed on PlanetEclipse the first release of LiClipe from Fabio Zadrozny. If I am not mistaken this is the first Eclipse product funded by crowdfunding. It looks like Fabio raised just over $30K on Indigogo to fund the initial development. Congrats to Fabio for being the first to get...

Interesting links from the M2M and IoT industry. 1. Introducing Intel Galileo – Intel for Arduino Not terribly surprising to see Intel getting closer to the open hardware community. Open hardware is driving a lot in M2M and IoT 2. Top 10 Challenges of IoT Stefan Ferber from Bosch Innovations...

We are starting to gear up for EclipseCon 2014, so I thought it would be useful to provide an update on what we are planning for the 2014 event. First, we are going back to California. The last two years we were on the US east coast but it is...

I spent last week at JavaOne in San Francisco, and I thought I would share a few things about the event that might be of interest to the Eclipse community. First I should mention that I thought the buzz at the conference was the best that I’ve felt for years...

So the Dash backend process is running. Again. In fact, it’s run to completion once already. Dashing through the snow… er… ice. Dash is the Eclipse Foundation service that provides commit data. Dash is used when we IP Logs, show graphs on project pages, and for general sorts of activity...

A lot of M2M and IoT news coming from Oracle at JavaOne. I am sorry I missed JavaOne this year but Oracle really seemed to stake out a leadership position for themselves and Java in the space. Great to see enterprise vendors, like Oracle, moving in this direction. Java on...

Weekly links from the M2M and IoT Industry M2M Research Report M2M Platforms are re-cast for the age of the Internet of Things – A good white paper from jim Morrish of Machina Research that describes the many different types of M2M platform vendors. Unfortunately he didn’t touch upon open...

Bug 331397 suggests that we should add a little something about project namespaces into the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). In my mind, there are at least a couple of problems with this: I’d really like to avoid adding anything to the EDP; and we stopped being a Java/OSGi exclusive club...

I am spending a fair bit of time researching the M2M and IoT industry. There is a lot of really interested stuff being created and being written. I am going to start trying to capture and share some of the more interesting content in what I hope weekly blog posts...

Last week, I wrote about the creation of a “Call Home” policy for Eclipse projects. It’s been a busy week that’s seen a lot of discussion on Bug 413169 and the Cross Project Issues Dev mailing list. “Hi honey, it’s me. There’s a double rainbow. It’s so beautiful.” The discussion...