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The e4-Rover Mars Challenge has come to an end. The feedback and participation was outstanding. Thank you to everyone who played. We introduced e4 to a lot of people this week. There are two categories in the contest: Top Score and Best Client. The winner of the top score was...

I have been attending technical conferences and trade shows for over 20 years. I have seen hundreds of keynotes speakers, many very good. Today I saw the best keynote presentation ever! Jeff Norris from NASA JPL gave an amazing keynote presentation at EclipseCon. He was rewarded with a standing ovation...

The first release of the Eclipse Marketplace Client (MPC) is now available in the Helios M6 Java IDE and RCP packages. This is the next step towards creating an ‘App Store’ like experience for the Eclipse ecosystem. The goal is to allow a developer to install a new Eclipse solution...

I am pleased to announce the results of the 2010 Board elections. The elected Committer Member representatives for 2010 will be: Chris Aniszczyk Boris Bokowski Ed Merks The elected Sustaining Member (e.g. Solution and Enterprise Member) representatives for 2010 will be: Hans Kamutzki Mik Kersten Adam Lieber Please join me...

On March 22, I will be presenting my revised edition of the Eclipse Development Process to the Eclipse Board of Directors for their approval. I’ve been discussing the upcoming changes in this blog, and in a handful of bug reports, so I’m pretty comfortable with the ideas. But like many...

We are ready for Round 2 of feedback on an updated Eclipse Logo. We have narrowed the options to four different concepts. As a reminder, the purpose of this exercise is to see if we can find ways to modernize and update the existing Eclipse logo. We are not looking...

The EclipseCon e4-Rover Mars Challenge is coming together very nicely. It is turning out to be an impressive use of Eclipse technology, including e4, Equinox and Equinox in the Cloud. I had the chance to interview Jeff Norris from NASA and Boris Bokowski an e4 and Platform committer. I asked...

It is always nice to come across examples of people thinking about future IDEs. I came across CodeBubbles and this video. Looks pretty cool and it is built on Eclipse. I wonder if they use e4?

In case you missed the news, Oracle is now in control of the Java community. The next 6 months are going to be fascinating to watch Oracle put their stamp on the JCP, OpenJDK, Java 7, Glassfish, Jigsaw, JavaME, dynamic languages and much more. I have a lot of confidence...

There is some awkward wording in the current version of the Eclipse Development Process with regard to project leadership. I’d like to try and clean that up. Here’s what I’m thinking: 4.6 Leaders There are two different types of project leadership at Eclipse: The Project Management Committee (PMC) and Project...