Blog Posts

It started as a bit of a weekend distraction, but turned into something a little more. I’ve always thought that the Eclipse Projects Gateway page isn’t quite living up to its potential. It seems to me that our user and adopter community should be able to use this page to...

In January we started a process to determine if we should update the existing Eclipse logo. As I have said before, the existing logo is great but it was created 8-9 years ago and maybe deserves an update or modernization. The response to a call for new concepts has been...

Millions of individual and thousands of organizations are part of the Eclipse community as users, contributors, committers, adopters, researchers, students, etc, etc. Unfortunately, the majority of the Eclipse community is passive. One thing we are trying to do is make it easier for more people and companies to actively participate...

Jeff Norris from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab is one of the keynotes at EclipseCon 2010. Jeff is a great speaker and typically has lots of really cool videos of robots in his talk, so I am expecting his keynote to be a highlight of the conference. Jeff is also...

Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk has written extensively on the rising importance of data, especially large amounts of data, in the IT industry. Stephen is usually right about these types of trends so I have started to look how this might impact the Eclipse community. Predictably, we are seeing some early...

Wow, we have received over 200 concepts for a new Eclipse logo. Some I really like, some are just ugly. Now we need to start narrowing the choices so we can make a decision. We are going to do two rounds of community voting to determine if it makes sense...

The IDE for Education (ide4edu) project has made some progress over these last few months with the help of some undergraduate students. Most of the effort has been around making Eclipse just a little easier to use during those first few months of learning. For the first time user, the...

In my previous post discussing pending change in the Eclipse Development Process (EDP), I tried to present my view of what projects should look like at Eclipse. Scott suggested that a few pictures might help. It’s important to me that these concepts be understood. Therefore, I present: The. Best. Graphics...

It is always nice to be recognized with industry awards, so I take great pleasure in the fact the Eclipse Foundation was recognized as a ‘Company to Watch’ but Intelligent Enterprise. I especially like their conclusion ‘Eclipse is the tail that now wags enterprise software development.’ From Intelligent Enterprise: Eclipse...

Last week we officially proposed a new Eclipse project to create an client for the Eclipse Marketplace. As I described late last year, the next step for Marketplace is to integrate Marketplace directly into each Eclipse installation. We want to make it as easy as possible for Eclipse users to...