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Note: Somehow, I managed to delete this post. So I’ve reposted it. Nothing new to see here. Move along… Correction: For reasons lost in the deep recesses of my brain, I mistakenly titled this August 200_8_. Not sure how this happened, but it’s been fixed. Normally… I’m fixated on the...

We’ve made a few changes at the Eclipse Foundation. Anne, who many committers know as the “face of the EMO” has been doing double-duty on conferences (EclipseCon and Eclipse Summit Europe) and “project stuff” for a long time. Frankly, she’s been doing a fantastic job of it, but after a...

Every once in a while I am reminded of the lunacy of the Internet, especially headline writers. On Monday of this week, Oracle released an update to the Java 1.6 update 21 that fixes a problem in a previous version that broke Eclipse. All the details can be found in...

Summer madness has force me to leave a gap in the delivery of my award-winning “ Eclipse is…” blog series. But I’m back now. In this series, I walk through the many different aspects of Eclipse, starting with the definition that most people are comfortable with: Eclipse is a Java...

Today is a very exciting and important day for the Eclipse community. The Eclipse Platform project has released Eclipse SDK 4.0, the next generation of the Eclipse platform. For technical perspective on the release I point you to Mike Wilson’s excellentt blog post ‘Growing the future’. Congratulations to the entire...

The Eclipse Marketplace Client (MPC) is getting nice reviews from people using the Helios release. I think Zoltan Ujhelyi sums up MPC very nicely: This solution [MPC] is great, because I don’t have to remember/google for the various update site urls, and then manually select the features – if I...

Helios has been out for just over 1 month and it looks like our more successful release to date. As of today we have over 1,373871 download requests, not bad for 33 days after the release. Last year we did 1 million downloads in 27 days. If you are looking...

One of the great things about Eclipse is that–unlike the celestial event and the unfortunately-named movie–everybody gets to see it; regardless of your location on earth, you have access to Eclipse. But, like Linus, some people are confused as to the nature of Eclipse. To try and help people better...

The brilliance of Charles Shultz never ceases to amaze me. As far back as 1963, he knew that Eclipse was a big deal. But even he had difficulty getting Lucy and Linus to describe Eclipse. This brings me back to my recent discussion of a presentation I do titled “...

Earlier this month eWeek published a list of the top 25 Best and Brightest Eclipse projects. Congratulations to all the projects that made it on the list! As with any top ## lists, some worthy projects are missed. What other projects deserved to be in the list?