Blog Posts

Note: I am going to start a series of blog posts about industry trends and how they will be represented at EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect. Last week was about Support for Emerging Languages. Domain Specific Languages (DSL) is a term you hear more and more about as people try...

Welcome to 2012 folks, its going to be a busy and exciting year. There will be a number of important new projects, programs and initiatives across the Eclipse community. When we’re done Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation is going to be quite a different – and even more interesting –...

In the last number of years there has been a boom in the creation of new computer languages. Some might wonder why we need so many new languages but one thing I have found is that software developers can be very passionate about software languages. Another gratifying trend is the...

In early November we announced a new industry working group to focus on the emerging machine-to-machine (M2M) market. This working group has been formally created, the IWG charter has been finalized and IBM, Sierra Wireless, Eurotech and Axeda are the initial members. One of the first activities is to create...

As many people know, we have moved EclipseCon to Reston, Virginia from the our usual location in Santa Clara, California. I am very excited about trying out the new location. For many returning and new attendees there are some key reason I think Reston is going to be a great...

Each year we recognize individuals, projects and products in the Eclipse community by awarding the Eclipse Community Awards at EclipseCon. I know from talking with past winners that it is a big deal for them and they appreciate the recognition. Therefore, I’d like to request everyone in the community to...

The three EclipseCon 2012 keynotes have been announced. Each of the keynotes talk about a key trend in our community and industry, so I am very excited that we were able to line-up such great speakers. 1. Open Web Platform. Alex Russell from the Google Chrome development team is going...

Last Friday the acceptance (and unfortunately the decline) letters were sent out to people who wanted to speak at EclipseCon. As you might expect there were lots of happy people but some people who were disappointed. We have close to 400 submissions for 120 speaking slots and 16 tutorials, so...

This week there were news items about browser market share, so it got me thinking about updating a blog post I did last year about the eclipse.org web stats. For this update, I am comparing the exact same 30 day period, Sept. 20-Oct. 20, 2011 with the same days in...

Blogosphere and twittersphere are both abuzz this week as a result of Mikeal Rogers’ “ Apache Considered Harmful” post. I thought the article made a number of important points about how the software world is changing, and changing very rapidly. However, I think that follow-on articles such as “ Has...