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    Comments and Suggestions from the Eclipse Survey

    by Anonymous

    At the end of the Eclipse Community Survey we ask for general comments and suggestions about Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation. I decided to respond and highlight some of them. I want to know about e4 more detail. But I feel those information don’t meet my expectation. So please give...

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    Two Years of Experience Doesn’t make you “Senior”

    by Wayne Beaton

    Two years of experience doesn’t make you “senior”. Except maybe in high school. I don’t mean this in a negative sort of way. I mean it in a trying-to-help-you-out sort of way. I’ve worked for a relatively small number of companies in my twenty-plus years of professional life. Small by...

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    Eclipse Community Survey Result for 2012

    by Anonymous

    Each year we survey the Eclipse community to gather some insight into what developers are doing with Eclipse and open source. We have published the results and the detailed data is available [ xls] [ ods]. Embedded version of the report is at the end of this post. Each year...

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    Top 10 Most Popular New Eclipse Plugins

    by Anonymous

    Eclipse Marketplace continues to be the place to discover interesting and relevant Eclipse plugins. There are over 100,000 successful installs/month of Eclipse-based products via the Eclipse Marketplace client. We have a list of the most popular plugins over the last 30 days and all time. I thought it would be...

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    Managing Committers in the Project Management Infrastructure

    by Wayne Beaton

    I’ve been struggling for a while to think of a good way to implement committer management in the new project management infrastructure. Here’s an example of what we have in the Developer Portal today: This component lists each committer with a visual representation of their contribution status. Using this component...

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    Start Simple, Then Build “Call of Duty”

    by Wayne Beaton

    My son is taking a course in computer programming at his high school. As is the case for many (most?) high school students in Ontario, they’re using a programming language named Turing. I initially hated the Turing programming language. That hate was a bit irrational, as–like many of my peers–I...

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    Understanding Layouts in SWT

    by Wayne Beaton

    An unrelated problem drew my attention to the Understanding Layouts in SWT article. It’s always bugged me that the many screenshots in this article are represented in JPEG format. JPEG is a lossy format that, in my humble opinion, is inappropriate for screenshots as the images end up with odd...

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    The Eclipse that Everybody is Looking For…

    by Wayne Beaton

    Our dependence on search technology grows. A while back, I posted the Top Ten Ways to Say Eclipse. It seems like every few days, I get a new one to add to my list. I get asked about Eclipse cables, Eclipse wire strippers, Eclipse massages, and more. The variety is...

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    Transparent and Open

    by Wayne Beaton

    The term “open and transparent” rolls off your tongue. While somewhat more cumbersome to say, I tend to prefer reversing the order: “transparent and open”. I prefer this because I believe that transparent precedes open; and far more open source projects are transparent than are open. In my experience most...

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    Eclipse Community Survey: Give Us Your Feedback

    by Anonymous

    For the last 3 years we have done a survey of the Eclipse community to better understand what developers are doing with Eclipse and open source. The survey results have provided some interesting insights into the trends of the general software development community. We have now launched the 2012 edition...

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