Blog Posts

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, has penned an interesting post about their involvement and contribution to the open source/free software community. He is responding to some criticism that Canonical is not giving enough back. Mark makes an excellent point that there are many ways to give back and...

Genuitec is a long time member of the Eclipse community, known for their MyEclipse product and more recently their Pulse product. Therefore I was thrilled to hear they have just hit a significant milestone for their Pulse product: 1 million developers. That is great news for Genuitec, congratulations!. It is...

As I mentioned yesterday, we want to encourage people to tell their Eclipse story. Last week Cell Biosciences told their story at the Eclipse Day at the Googleplex. You can view their entire presentation but I have added a summary on the Eclipse Story wiki and below. btw, Cell Biosciences...

Lots of people are doing incredible things with Eclipse. People are building amazing applications that embedded Eclipse technology. Companies have standardized on Eclipse as their development tools platform. Students and researchers are using Eclipse for creating some very cool new technology. As with any open source community, sharing information is...

Last Thursday, Google was the host of the third Eclipse Day at the Googleplex. I look forward to this event each year and this year was another success. Over 150 people attended the day long event that included 12 sessions related to Eclipse and Google technology. The presentations are now...

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...