Blog Posts

The existing Automatic IP Log Tool and the new EMF-based one that I’m unveiling next week at Eclipse Summit Europe both make use of the iplog flag in Eclipse Bugzilla. After spending some quality time with the code that scours the various Eclipse Foundation databases to find contributions to a...

Openness and transparency are two of the more important principles at Eclipse and outward communication is an important part of both. It is through outward communication that we let the community know what’s going on. I recently sent out an email, for example, declaring to the community that the Doc2Model...

Earlier this year we started a project to re-create Eclipse Plugin Central. Thanks to the hard work of Nathan Gervais, we are getting very close to making Eclipse Marketplace a reality. In late September, we rolled out a beta of the site and now we would like to get even...

JetBrains just announced an open source edition of their popular IntelliJ IDE, under the Apache 2.0 license. As many might know, IntelliJ was one of the last IDE’s that actually cost money. It appears they have adopted an open source plus commerical value add strategy, similar to many companies in...

Kirk Knoernschild from Burton Group is asking for inut to an OSGi Survey. Last year Kirk did a similar survey and the results we pretty interesting. As Kirk mentioned, not exactly a scientific survey but since OSGi seems to be gaining momentum it will be interesting to compare results. The...

Last week I attended the CTIA conference; the USA mobile phone industry conference. At the conference, Eclipse announced that Sony Ericsson and Ericsson had joined our Pulsar initiative. I also spent the week talking to developers and learning more about the mobile developer community. Mobile development is definitely on the...

This past week I had the opportunity to interview both keynote speakers for the upcoming Eclipse Summit Europe conference. My goal was to find out a bit more about their upcoming presentations. The interviews are now available as podcasts on Eclipse Live. Don Syme works at MS Research in Cambridge...

On Thursday this week (October 8/2009), I’m presenting Mylyn at the FOSSLC Eclipse Bootcamp in Ottawa. Doug Schaefer will be presenting “Eclipse CDT and developing for Android”, and Boris Bokowski will be introducing e4. I wish this was happening after Eclipse Summit Europe. If it were after the Summit, I...

Last week at the Open World Forum, I had the pleasure of attending Michael Tiemann’s talk on the “Road to the Digital Recovery”. Michael kindly summarized his key points on his blog. The most interesting sound bite from Michael’s talk was his estimate that $1 trillion is wasted every year...

I believe that to grow any community you need to have vibrant online collaborations and periodic face-to-face meetings. The face-to-face meetings are how you develop and cement relationships. This is why I believe the Eclipse Days and the Eclipse DemoCamps are such an important part of growing the Eclipse community...