Open VSX 1.0.0: Celebrating a Milestone and the Community Behind It
Reaching version 1.0.0 is a special moment for any open source project. It marks more than a collection of features...
Who Came to Eclipse Summit Europe?
Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) 2010 was a great success. I really enjoyed meeting old and new friends in the Eclipse...
Is Eclipse Modeling In the Mainstream?
The Eclipse Enterprise Modeling Day was held yesterday in Zurich. We had over 100 people from 50 different companies in...
Take a Deep Breath, Then Vote for Eclipse: Our View on the JCP
My goodness, this past week has seen a flurry of despair around Java and the JCP. Most of it misguided...
Eclipse Summit Europe Nearing Capacity
We are getting very close to the maximum number of people we can host at Eclipse Summit Europe. There are...
More Eclipse Community Data
As a follow-up to my web analytic post, Mark Phippard from Collabnet and Subclipse fame, posted some data they have...
Dear Oracle, Get a Clue
Dear Oracle, I hate to tell you but you need some help with the Java community. The basic problem is...
Eclipse.org Web Traffic Analysis
This past week I spent some time looking at the web stats, via Google Analytics, for eclipse.org. There are some...
Java 8 Vote
Yesterday I described the reasons why I think the Eclipse Foundation should vote in favour of the Java 7 JSR...
Java 7 Vote
Stephen Colebourne correctly pointed out in his blog this morning that when the Java 7 JSR is proposed to the...
Eclipse Labs Passes 1000 OSS Projects
We launched Eclipse Labs this past May. The goal was to create a community for Eclipse open source projects that...
Coming Soon: Eclipse Summit Europe
Eclipse Summit Europe is only a few short weeks away. ESE and EclipseCon ( EC2011 call for papers is open!)...
An Unexpected Pleasure
Today’s announcement that IBM is going to join forces and work with Oracle on OpenJDK is good news for Java...