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The new EclipseCon web site allows attendees to build their own schedule [1]. We can also mine this data to see what are the most popular sessions. Only 25 people have setup their own schedule but based on that data here are the top 10 most popular sessions. It will...

In just about 10 days, EclipseCon Europe and its storm of great keynotes, awesome talks, and yummy frosty beverage will be all upon its lucky participants. This year, two great programming contests will allow you to have fun doing what most of you do best: write code! In this post...

EclipseCon Europe starts in less than two weeks! It is shaping up to be our largest European conference. The highlight for me will be the celebration of the Eclipse 10th Birthday on Wednesday evening. A great thing about the conference is the global nature of the attendees. This year we...

Every time I post a new project proposal, I receive a handful of emails from people in the community asking to be added to the committer list on the proposal. But it doesn’t work that way: it’s really not up to me. For new projects, we have to cheat a...

I rolled out some changes last week that pull some information for Intellectual Property (IP) Logs from Git. IP Logs provide a record of where the various intellectual property contributions for a project come from; they are a very important tool when it comes to tracking the provenance of a...

At EclipseCon Europe, I will be hosting a marketing workshop for anyone interested in marketing Eclipse-based products. My plan is to keep the workshop very informal and interactive. I am hoping people come to share their experiences and learn from others. I expect we will cover topics such as: social...

As we get ready to celebrate 10 years of Eclipse, I thought it would be interesting to look back on the major milestones in the Eclipse community, ie. what were the major events that have helped shape and drive the Eclipse community. Here is my list but please feel free...

JavaOne is finished and I am leaving with a positive feeling about the conference and the Java community. During the closing keynote, one of the community panelist made the point that Oracle presented Vision and Execution at JavaOne. I would also add they presented Community. Oracle did a nice job...

We are celebrating the 10th birthday of Eclipse in November. One of the great things about Eclipse is the community. Over the last ten years a great community of individuals, organizations, projects and products has been created around the Eclipse technology. To celebrate the 10th birthday, we have developed the...

Last week, I had the pleasure of chatting with some senior technical people from Infor, the third largest ERP vendor. The topic of the conversation was Infor’s use of Eclipse Virgo as the base technology for their next generation middleware platform, called ION. ION is event-driven middleware that makes it...