Beware the IDEs of March. For each release, an Eclipse project is required to provide a project plan. The project plan is created at the beginning of a release cycle and may be modified throughout the cycle. The plan tells the community what the main areas of focus are in...
I’ve been talking a lot about diversity lately. There are, of course, different kinds of diversity; but when I talk about diversity, I tend to mean diversity in the organizations contributing to an open source project: multiple organizations from different parts of the industry working together. Doug tweeted recently on...
EclipseCon always attracts an international group of attendees, this year is no different. 33 different countries will be represented at EclipseCon 2012. Below is a list of countries that will be represented. United States Canada Germany France United Kingdom Switzerland Sweden Austria Bulgaria Denmark Brazil Japan Russia Norway South Korea...
Oracle just announced the call for papers for JavaOne 2012 for September 30-October 4. It would be great to have a ton more Eclipse content this year at JavaOne. In past years, Eclipse content has been light but from a brief twitter conversation with some key Oracle Java folks there...
This year at EclipseCon we are going to have our first-ever Top Coder competition. During the Eclipse Award Ceremony, some lucky attendees will be invited up on stage to participate in games of skill and trivia to determine the Top Coder. Thanks to Jonas Helming, the Top Coder will have...
I am inspired by a bit of advice from an old programmer. Since I’ve spent more than twenty years as a professional software developer (close to thirty years if you count high-school and university), I figure that I’ve earned the right to refer to myself as an “Old Programmer”. As...
EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect have four days of amazing content waiting for attendees. EclipseCon is also a great opportunity to have face-to-face meetings for projects and working groups at Eclipse. This year there are a number of meetings already planned, including: CDT Summit – for individuals and organizations contributing...
This past month, especially since SR2 on Feb. 24, we have noticed a large uptake in our web site traffic and downloads. We have already surpassed 1 million downloads of SR2 in less than 8 days; normally it would take close to 30 days. Denis and I decided to do...
Nathan and I have been working on a new Project Management Infrastructure for the Eclipse Foundation. Some think of it as a replacement for the current Developer Portal. I see it as more than that. There are many aspects of project management at Eclipse that just aren’t covered by the...
I’ve been learning about styling using CSS in Eclipse 4. I’m capturing some of the steps that I’ve been following with these posts. Think of this as more of a journal than any sort of “how to” on the topic. The CSS Spy is a handy resource for figuring out...