Blog Posts

Today is the first day of the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, so it seemed like a good time to announce that the Eclipse Foundation has joined the Symbian Foundation and the Symbian Foundation has joined the Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse and Symbian have been working together for a number...

This year at EclipseCon we decided to use Twitter to create an online community for the conference. Twitter is still relatively new to most people so I thought it might be interesting to write a report about our experiences. Hopefully other conference organizers can use some of these ideas and...

Sun was a gold sponsor at EclipseCon. As you can imagine we are thrilled to have Sun participate in the conference. I had a chance to catch up with Arun Gupta, Glassfish evangelist and really nice guy. Arun talked about Sun’s participation in EclipseCon, specifically their Eclipse plugins for Glassfish...

This year at EclipseCon I have heard a lot of people talk about XText. Being the onsite reporter at EclipseCon, I caught up with Wolfgang Neuhaus from Itemis to ask him about Xtext, which turns out to be a toolkit for domain specific languages. [ video link] [blip.tv ?posts_id=1932985&dest=-1]

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...