Blog Posts

The final countdown to EclipseCon, just one week away. Luckily I don’t have a presentation to prepare but I am organizing an Eclipse in Financial Services BOF on Monday evening at 19:30. The intent is to have an informal conversation with people in the financial industry that are using Eclipse...

I’ve been blogging about the Eclipse Business Expense Reporting Tool (EBERT) over the last couple of days for a few reasons. First, as an example, it’s important to make sure people are aware of it. It’s not a very good example if nobody knows about it. My intent is to...

I’m concerned that the Eclipse Business Expense Reporting Tool (EBERT) is getting too complicated. Since the application can run on the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP), it needs to support the notion of multiple users. Since it also runs on Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), I can’t use the RAP-specific...

A noter dans vos agendas ! Le 19 mars, à 16h30, je co-animerai avec Vincent Ducrohet de la société Ingres, un webinar destiné à présenter Eclipse (tant l’atelier de développement que la plateforme), le SGBD Open Source Ingres, et les utilisations qui peuvent être faites de ces deux technologies. Un...

The Eclipse Usage Data Collector has been running for several months now. I spent a few minutes yesterday cleaning up the presentation of the data. The Usage Data Collector page on eclipse.org now has fresh links to the report data. You’ll notice some changes. For example, all the report data...

EclipseCon is just two weeks away. Taking a look at the registration data shows we will have a truly international conference. So far 31 countries will be represented, including United States, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Denmark, Russia, Brazil, China, Japan, Norway, Czech Republic, India, South Korea...

I’ve been quietly hacking away at the Eclipse Business Expense Reporting Tool (EBERT) from the Examples project for some time. My goal is to turn this application into a shining example of how you can go about making a real (albeit relatively simple) application based on Eclipse RCP, eRCP, and...

The best thing about the Eclipse Community Awards is discovering new and interesting ways Eclipse and open source technology is being used to solve interesting real world problems. For instance, 1. MAEviz is an open source project, from the Mid-America Earthquake Center, that performs seismic risk assessment and is used...

EclipseCon starts in just over 2 weeks. There are tons of great sessions and speakers but the one speaker I am really excited to hear is Clay Shirky. I am a keen observer of community building, social networks, social media and new ways of marketing/communicating. Clay Shirky produces some of...

Bryan Hunt on reminded me on twitter of an interesting article about using Twitter as a participation tool during presentations. I have no idea how many people will be twitter enabled at EclipseCon. However, this article does raise some interesting ideas for presenters to increase audience participation. As I have...