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A number of people in the Eclipse community have roots to Smalltalk; for instance I was the ENVY/Developer marketing guy at OTI. When people talk about the glory days of Smalltalk, some people can get all teary-eyed. I long for the days of ENVY config. maps. So when I read...

I’ve been tinkering on-and-off for a couple of years on some Eclipse-based presentation software. My primary motivation is my distrust of existing presentation software. Curiously, I get a new head of steam on the “project” every time PowerPoint or Open Office fries one of my documents. Last week was one...

There is a steady stream of interesting Eclipse related jobs on the eclipse.employment newsgroup. Take today, Diesel Games is looking for an RCP Developer. I gotta believe working for a games company must be a lot of fun. It seems Diesel Games is still developing their product but when it...

Google has put up their oldest index to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Kind of fun to see what the search term ‘eclipse’ brings up. Page 2 has the link to the old www.eclipse.org web site which was a soccer team. Of course now http://www.eclipse.org is at the top of page...

Developing a community around your project is hard work. But it’s worth it. I think that every open source project dreams of having a community… at least they should dream of it. A community does stuff for you. As you develop a community of users, you’ll get feedback. Feedback is...

I just noticed that September 26 is the early bird discount for Eclipse World, October 28-30 in reston VA. Eclipse World is always one of my favorite Eclipse events and I am looking forward to attending this year. I hope to see you there.

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According to this announcement, they are all building their next generation Java server technology on OSGi. If I am not mistaken, basically 95%+ of the Java server market is now based on OSGi. That is a pretty compelling statement on the importance of OSGi. Of course Equinox is a pretty...

I’d like to welcome Chris Aniszczyk to the Technology PMC. Chris is well-known throughout the community. He is a tireless champion of Eclipse Technology who seems to have his fingers in just about everything. Chris has big dreams for the Technology Project and intends to work hard to attract many...

It is with great pleasure that I welcome Gunnar Wagenknecht to the Technology Project‘s Project Management Committee (PMC). Gunnar’s name is no-doubt familiar to many of you: he is a very active member of the Eclipse Community and a prolific contributor (and, based on the pictures on his blog, he...