Blog Posts

I am inspired by a bit of advice from an old programmer. Since I’ve spent more than twenty years as a professional software developer (close to thirty years if you count high-school and university), I figure that I’ve earned the right to refer to myself as an “Old Programmer”. As...

EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect have four days of amazing content waiting for attendees. EclipseCon is also a great opportunity to have face-to-face meetings for projects and working groups at Eclipse. This year there are a number of meetings already planned, including: CDT Summit – for individuals and organizations contributing...

This past month, especially since SR2 on Feb. 24, we have noticed a large uptake in our web site traffic and downloads. We have already surpassed 1 million downloads of SR2 in less than 8 days; normally it would take close to 30 days. Denis and I decided to do...

Nathan and I have been working on a new Project Management Infrastructure for the Eclipse Foundation. Some think of it as a replacement for the current Developer Portal. I see it as more than that. There are many aspects of project management at Eclipse that just aren’t covered by the...

I’ve been learning about styling using CSS in Eclipse 4. I’m capturing some of the steps that I’ve been following with these posts. Think of this as more of a journal than any sort of “how to” on the topic. The CSS Spy is a handy resource for figuring out...

The overall look of Eclipse 4 is controlled with CSS stylesheets. The CSS files take the same form as those for a browser, but underlying model is understandably different. Minimally, this means that the names of the things you can play with are different. Additionally, there are a few extra...

Voting for the Eclipse Foundation’s 2012 Board of Directors is now open. If you are eligible to vote, you should soon be receiving an email with your voting credentials. If you believe you are eligible, but do not receive credentials, please contact webmaster@eclipse.org. Many thanks to the candidates who put...

There are three reviews wrapping up on February 29/2012. First up, is the Orion project with their 0.4 Release Review. Orion’s objective is to create a browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web. Tools are written in JavaScript and run...

I loaded the PHP Development Tools into my fresh installation of Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers Juno M5 this morning. As I was waiting for the contents of the Juno software repository to load, what I saw in the status bar made me giggle: Maybe it’s just me. But...

Juno, the next Eclipse release train, will be the first time the default Eclipse platform will be based on Eclipse 4. This means all the packages on the eclipse.org/download page will be based on Eclipse 4, so lots and lots of people are going to be using Eclipse 4. The...