Blog Posts

Each year I host a Blogger party on the Sunday before EclipseCon. This year, I suggest we expand the scope of this gathering to include people on twitter; sometimes referred to as a ‘tweetup’. Of course bloggers are also welcome to attend but we might ask you to use small...

This Friday, I’m taking a cue from Chris and Boris and am planning to spend the afternoon working at a local coffee shop. More specifically, I’ll be at the Bridgehead at 1172 Bank St. (at Grove, south of the canal) from about noon until around 4pm or so. Since I’m...

This Friday, February 27 at 5pmET is the deadline to vote for the individuals in the Eclipse Community Awards. If you haven’t already voted, now is the time to vote for the individuals that you think deserves special recognition for the extra effort they have contributed to the Eclipse community...

Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC) is the place people go to find stuff in the Eclipse ecosystem. It has over 1100 products listed and 60 service and training providers; gets about 140K+ unique visitors a month and generates about 150-200K click thrus to the sites of the listed products. EPIC is...

The Government of Canada has issued an RFI for information about No Charge Licensed Software; for some reason they needed to create a new term for open source software. Since I am a Canadian, live in Ottawa and am very involved in OSS, I have been preparing a response to...

The Eclipse Banking Day in London last week was a great success. When we first started to plan for this event I did not know what type of response to expect. Based on the results of the event, I can definitely say Eclipse is very popular with the banks in...

I’m not a coffee drinker myself, but I do have to admit that I feel a little jealous every time Chris‘ Facebook status shows that he’s working at a local hot spot… Eclipse Bug Day is coming up, this February 27. It seems like a great opportunity to get out...

On January 30th, I spoke with Brian Fitzpatrick (PMC Lead, Architecture and Planning Councils Representative, Architecture Council Mentor, Project Lead, and Committer) from the Data Tools Project (DTP) about the Data Tools track at EclipseCon 2009. As has become tradition, we digressed frequently from the main focus of our conversation...

La première version, déjà prometteuse, d’Eclipse 4 a été livrée hier. Au programme, une démo mettant en œuvre les grands principes retenus dans le cadre de cette refonte architecturale qu’est e4, à savoir : Le “workbench” de cette démo modélisé de A à Z : les vues, les menus, les...

Chris Aniszczyk and Boris Bokowski are two committers that the Eclipse community recognises by their first names alone. Stories of their tireless contributions to Eclipse projects and the community are legendary. These guys are giants in the community. Their names will one day be rendered in flashing tubes of neon...