Blog Posts

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...

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...