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During the month of January I have been doing some advertising for EclipseCon 2012 and Agile ALM Connect. This year we are in a new location (Reston, VA) and Agile ALM Connect is a new conference, so we wanted to make sure the word got out. I am a big...

I decided to spend some time reviewing the talks at EclipseCon 2012 and came across this gem: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Build With Hudson driving builds from the top; Git, Gerrit, Maven, and Tycho in the middle; and Mylyn controlling the pieces from the developer’s...

When you register for EclipseCon 2012 and Agile ALM Connect you are asked to pre-select the tutorial you want to attend on Monday. We do this so we can ensure the more popular tutorials are in the bigger rooms and to make sure people have a place to sit (three...

‘The build is broken’ is something I’ve heard too many times in my software development career. Concepts like continuous delivery and devops make it all that more important to have a build that you can trust. In the Agile ALM Connect session, Build Trust in Your Build to Deployment Flow...

Imagine that you want to contribute to an open source project. You visit the project to browse the information provided by the project team and make your way to the downloads page. There, you discover that the downloads are hosted at a separate site owned and maintained by one of...

DevOps is one of those terms you hear a LOT about lately but I am not sure it is really well understood. However, if you are going to be successful at Agile ALM it would seem natural you would want to bring the operations side of IT closer into the...

Lifecycle tool integration is a key issue for the new breed of tools emerging around the concepts of Agile ALM. Eclipse is a great platform for tools integration on the desktop but how do tools integrate on the server? OSLC and Eclipse Lyo are a specification and open source implementation...

Every couple of days, I get an email from somebody looking for a price quote for Eclipse. Generally, the sender is a software reseller acting on behalf of a client. Sometimes they ask to partner with us, sometimes they just want a simple price quote. In all cases, I answer...

This is the final week of nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards. I would particularly like to see more nominees in the Top Committer, Top Contributor and Newcomer Evangelist category. Deadline for nominations is Friday, January 27, 2012.

Congratulations to the Orion team for being named a 2011 Open Source Rookie of the Year project by Black Duck Software. Black Duck based the awards on the data they analyzed from their two services: Ohloh and the Black Duck Knowledgebase. The metrics they used were: “Using a weighted scoring...