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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...

DZone has just published a new Equinox reference card. The idea of the reference cards is to make it easier for people to quickly get up to speed on some of the main Equinox concepts. I hope this becomes a useful resource for people wanting to know more about Equinox...

En guise d’avant-goût au livre “ Equinox and OSGi: The Power Behind Eclipse“, une fiche de référence sur OSGi et son implémentation de référence Equinox a été concoctée par Jeff McAffer et mise à disposition sur le site DZone. Attention , il faut un compte pour pouvoir télécharger le PDF...

Bjorn and I represented the Emerging Technology track on the EclipseCon 2009 Programme Committee. Today, we recorded this short podcast discussing the track and some of the talks that you can expect to find at this year’s EclipseCon. Many (or perhaps most) of the talks on the Emerging Technology track...

Esther Schindler from CIO Magazine is doing a feature on anticipated Open Source Project releases in 2009. Of course Eclipse Galileo will be highly anticipated but what other releases (Eclipse related or other open source projects) will be important in 2009. Leave a comment about which release and why. I...

In this video recorded at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008, Tom Schindl, new co-lead of the Eclipse Nebula project, discusses the future of the project.

The third edition of “Eclipse Plug-ins” (previously titled “Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins”) by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel is available. Eclipse Plug-ins provides detailed, practical coverage of every aspect of plug-in development, as well as specific, proven solutions for the challenges developers are most likely to encounter. This comprehensive guide...