WindowBuilder and CodePro Profiler are Coming to Eclipse
A few minutes ago, I posted two exciting new project proposals. WindowBuilder is already known as one of the best...
Christmas Comes Early for Java Developers
Today Google announced that they will be contributing two key pieces of Java tooling technology to proposed Eclipse Foundation projects...
An Interesting Number
I’m writing a little utility that scans the download.eclipse.org server to compare the contents against our IPZilla database. Essentially, I’m...
Barb Moving On
I have a bit of sad news, which is that Barb Cochrane of the Intellectual Property Management team is leaving...
Twitter Usage at ESE
Cate Huston has done an analysis of the Eclipse Summit Europe twitter hashtag (#ese). It is interesting to see the...
Qualified Support
Neil Bartlett asked me on Twitter a few days ago why the Eclipse Foundation was supporting the JSR for SE8...
Top 10 Most Popular Eclipse Plugins
Ever wonder what are the most popular Eclipse plugins? The Eclipse Marketplace is keeping track of the number of times...
Top 5 Best Practices for a Successful Open Development Community
My recent blog post Changing Nature of Open Source Companies discusses a 451 Group report that describes how corporate open...
Increasing the Odds of Speaking at EclipseCon
Each year people are mad/shocked/angry/disappointed/sad their talk did not get selected for EclipseCon. Unfortunately, each year we have a limited...
Java and Mac Lovers Rejoice
Hot off the press, Apple and Oracle just announced that: Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and...
Some New Project Tools for Committers
Over the past couple of months, I’ve worked on some tools that I’ve found helpful for project administration. First up...
The Changing Nature of Open Source Companies
Matt Aslett, from 451 Group, is one of the best analysts in the industry for studying the business strategies of...