Last Friday the acceptance (and unfortunately the decline) letters were sent out to people who wanted to speak at EclipseCon. As you might expect there were lots of happy people but some people who were disappointed. We have close to 400 submissions for 120 speaking slots and 16 tutorials, so...
This week there were news items about browser market share, so it got me thinking about updating a blog post I did last year about the eclipse.org web stats. For this update, I am comparing the exact same 30 day period, Sept. 20-Oct. 20, 2011 with the same days in...
Blogosphere and twittersphere are both abuzz this week as a result of Mikeal Rogers’ “ Apache Considered Harmful” post. I thought the article made a number of important points about how the software world is changing, and changing very rapidly. However, I think that follow-on articles such as “ Has...
Kudos to organizer Andrew Overholt for pulling off a great Eclipse Demo Camp in Toronto–hosted in Red Hat‘s beautiful (and very clean) new digs on Eglinton Avenue–last night. Andrew Robinson from Red Hat started things off with a demonstration of some Eclipse-based tools used to drive Koji, the software that...
One of the things about the current developer portal that drives me absolutely mad is the fact that releases and their corresponding reviews have no direct connection. I spent a few hours a few months ago hacking code to form tenuous connections between things that should be pretty tightly connected...
Last Friday, Sven Efftinge launched a new web site for the Xtend language. It is a great web site that clearly explains what is Xtend and why any developer should care. To announce the web site, Sven did a blog post and a tweet. What happened next was fun to...
Last week we hit one million successful installs of Eclipse solutions from Eclipse Marketplace Client. Unfortunately, it happened on the Friday of EclipseCon Europe so no one was able to capture a screenshot of the milestone. Luckily Nathan is pretty good with Photoshop. We launched the Eclipse Marketplace Client (MPC)...
Let me start by saying that I always prefer the dogfooding option. And I tried really hard to put a case together for dogfooding the Eclipse Project Management Infrastructure, but in the end, I decided that implementing the new infrastructure in Drupal was our best option. The decision was made...
Last week at EclipseCon Europe, John Swainson gave a keynote address that reflected on IBM’s decision to start Eclipse as an open source project and consortium. During his speech, John identified 5 key things IBM thought they needed to be successful. These success factors are still relevant today for any...
This past week we made a number of announcements at EclipseCon Europe, including two new industry working groups. Below is a summary: 1. Eclipse Celebrates 10 Years of Innovation EclipseCon Europe kicked off a month of celebrating the Eclipse 10th birthday. We did a press release to highlight some of...