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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...

Our vision for Agile ALM Connect is to bring together the leaders of different tools that are being used across the application lifecycle. Therefore, I was very happy that Olivier Gaudin, co-founder of the Sonar open source project, agreed to speak at Agile ALM Connect about how continuous inspection of...

After the success of Eclipse Party 2011 last year, the Eclipse Foundation, Airbus, Obeo and Sierra Wireless invite you to Eclipse Day Toulouse, on May 24, 2012. This year, we will have a full day event, with a particular focus on two topics for which Eclipse is an ecosystem of...

It has been a while since a survey has been published about Java IDE usage, so I was pleased to see the results of the latest survey from SD Times. Eclipse is still the dominant Java IDE at 65%. Nice to see! Eclipse JDT: 65.3% Oracle NetBeans: 25.8% Oracle JDeveloper...

We are looking for someone to help maintain Eclipse Marketplace Client for the next year. Details are available on the Eclipse Foundation forum.

At any technology conference attendees expect to learn from the industry experts, EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect certainly deliver the experts. However, learning from the experiences of others is equally important. That is why this year the EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect program has a big focus on learning from...