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The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) seems to be used everywhere and by everyone. IMHO, most people don’t appreciate how pervasive EMF usage is for managing data models. Therefore, in partnership with DZone we are running an ‘EMF Sightings’ competition. If you are using EMF, tell us how you are using...

Jeff McAffer dropped by the Eclipse Foundation‘s Ottawa office on Monday to chat with me about the Runtime Track at EclipseCon 2009. You can listen to the recorded podcast on Eclipse Live. In the podcast, we chat about the agonizing selection process through which the programme committee managed to whittle...

The nomination deadline for the Eclipse Community Awards is January 30. These awards are to recognize the work of all the great people in the Eclipse community. One unfortunate aspect is that only a few individuals are recognized as winners. This is really too bad since a lot of people...

The EclipseCon 2009 submissions system is now open for “ birds of a feather” (BoF) sessions. As in past years, this year we will be giving priority first to Eclipse projects. EclipseCon is a great place to get the team together and do one of those all-important face-to-face meetings in...

A new year brings new projects and new plans for marketing at Eclipse. I thought it would be useful to let the community know some of our plans for 2009. Of course this isn’t all we will be doing but it will represent a significant portion of our time and...

I briefly mentioned some presentation software I’ve been working on on-and-off for a while a few postings back. Eclipse Slideshow has gotten to the point where others are expressing interest, so I thought it was time to make it available. I’ve been holding back only because there are already two...

There are many things that I enjoy in this world. It probably goes without saying that among those topmost enjoyable things is watching my sons pick up the loose puck and make a play for the net. Somewhere close to the top of my list of things that I enjoy...

Today was the first kick-off meeting for the Mobile Industry Working Group; the meeting agenda is here. The motivation of this group is to make it easier for a developer to find and use the SDK’s from the different handset manufacturers. The goal is to define a Mobile Application Development...

FOSSLC & FOSS Factory invite you to attend a free mini-workshop about open source software development on the mobile platform, Mobile Embedded Development Conference, in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) Wednesday February 4th, 2009 from 5:00pm to 10:00pm. Experts in their fields, the speakers will introduce the applications they have developed and...

In this podcast (15:21), Mike Squillace, co-Technical Lead for the ACTF project discusses his EclipseCon 2009 Main stage presentation, Eclipse for All: Doing Accessibility Right in the Framework, the Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project, and accessibility in Eclipse in general. We talk about accessibility in the Eclipse workbench. Mike, who...