Blog Posts

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...

Next week is JavaOne and in a strange way I am looking forward to attending. I actually think Oracle is finally getting its groove around Java. There seems to be an energy that I am hoping will materialize next week. The keynotes are often an important barometer for setting the...

I am pleased to announce we are having our fourth Eclipse Day at the Googleplex on November 30th. Each year this event highlights some Eclipse projects and products being created by Google that are based on Eclipse. This year we have sessions on the Android Development Tools, Google Plugin for...