Blog Posts

Seems like today is going to be Cloud Day at EclipseCon. The keynote, ‘ Building Applications for the Cloud with Amazon‘ features Peter Vasholl from Amazon and Don MacAskill from SmugMug. Amazon has also announced a new AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. In addition Salesforce.com has announced a new release of...

Monday night we announced the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. Congratulation to all the finalist and all the winners. I had a chance to interview some of the winners at EclipseCon. Best RCP Commercial Application – Chord Scale Generator [ video link] [blip.tv ?posts_id=1924456&dest=-1] Best Commerical Developer Tool –...

Sun is now the proud sponsor of the Twitter-vision at EclipseCon. This means EclipseCon attendees will get to see the live tweets right at the conference. We are thrilled to have Sun’s participation in EclipseCon. They are also a Gold sponsor and are sponsoring the Wednesday evening Poster Reception. Sun...

Twitter is the shiny new toy tool that everyone is talking about. Twitter is a great tool for listening and interacting with a community, like the EclipseCon community. To make it easier to find the twitter people at EclipseCon, we have created the EclipseCon Birds Nest. [1] You can join...

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...