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Kudos to organizer Andrew Overholt for pulling off a great Eclipse Demo Camp in Toronto–hosted in Red Hat‘s beautiful (and very clean) new digs on Eglinton Avenue–last night. Andrew Robinson from Red Hat started things off with a demonstration of some Eclipse-based tools used to drive Koji, the software that...

One of the things about the current developer portal that drives me absolutely mad is the fact that releases and their corresponding reviews have no direct connection. I spent a few hours a few months ago hacking code to form tenuous connections between things that should be pretty tightly connected...

Last Friday, Sven Efftinge launched a new web site for the Xtend language. It is a great web site that clearly explains what is Xtend and why any developer should care. To announce the web site, Sven did a blog post and a tweet. What happened next was fun to...

Last week we hit one million successful installs of Eclipse solutions from Eclipse Marketplace Client. Unfortunately, it happened on the Friday of EclipseCon Europe so no one was able to capture a screenshot of the milestone. Luckily Nathan is pretty good with Photoshop. We launched the Eclipse Marketplace Client (MPC)...

Let me start by saying that I always prefer the dogfooding option. And I tried really hard to put a case together for dogfooding the Eclipse Project Management Infrastructure, but in the end, I decided that implementing the new infrastructure in Drupal was our best option. The decision was made...

Last week at EclipseCon Europe, John Swainson gave a keynote address that reflected on IBM’s decision to start Eclipse as an open source project and consortium. During his speech, John identified 5 key things IBM thought they needed to be successful. These success factors are still relevant today for any...

This past week we made a number of announcements at EclipseCon Europe, including two new industry working groups. Below is a summary: 1. Eclipse Celebrates 10 Years of Innovation EclipseCon Europe kicked off a month of celebrating the Eclipse 10th birthday. We did a press release to highlight some of...

We are getting very close to 1 million successful installs on Eclipse Marketplace. Sometime later this week we should hit the 1 million mark. A pretty cool achievement for the Eclipse community! I’d like to have a screenshot showing the counter at exactly 1,000,000. If you by chance see the...

Work in earnest has begun on a replacement for the Eclipse Developer Portal. We’re being a little ambitious with this new effort. We need to do more than what the current portal does. And we need to make it natural and easy to use. Further, I’ve decided to expand the...

As I have written, Eclipse is celebrating 10 years of open source and community during the month of November. There have been a number of milestones that have shaped the Eclipse community but what have been the major accomplishments? What has Eclipse done to actually change the software industry? Here...