Eclipse Summit Europe 2009 will be held again this year in beautiful Ludwigsburg, Germany on October 27-29. The deadline to submit your proposals is August 18th. That date is not very far away. I encourage you to submit a proposal about your project (and other topics of interest) sooner rather...
I’ve started posting excerpts from an interview I did for the latest issue of Eclipse Magazin. This magazine makes me wish that I could read German and had a reasonably long daily commute by train. But, alas, I do not. Yesterday, I posted the first two questions. Today, I’ve posted...
I thought I might publish the English version of an interview I did for the recent issue of Eclipse Magazin (with permission of the publisher, of course). The German version is a delightful bit of prose that my Mother now displays proudly. I was asked a total of nine questions...
A bit of good news for the Eclipse Public License this morning comes from Intuit, which announced that their community site code.intuit.com will be using the EPL. Intuit had previously decided to use the Common Public License, but when we pointed out that it had been superseded at the OSI...
This just in: Call for Participation – Deadline August 18, 2009 ECLIPSE SUMMIT EUROPE 2009 October 27-29, 2009 Ludwigsburg, Germany www.eclipsesummit.org The call for participation at the 4th annual Eclipse Summit Europe is closing soon on August 18, 2009. You are invited to submit proposals for short talks, long talks...
With Bug 222105, Remy Suen has assembled an Eclipse Corner article describing how to contribute to Eclipse. An important part of contributing to an Eclipse project is actually obtaining the code for that project. Unfortunately, we currently don’t have a good story for figuring out how to generically find the...
Today is the last day for the Galileo Blog-a-thon. So far we have 114 blogs posts about Galileo! Thanks for everyone that participated and wrote reviews about the Galileo projects. The response has been tremendous. If you want to find out what is hot [and not hot] in Galileo, I...
The e4 team has published the first release of the e4 project. This is an early alpha release that allows the Eclipse community to start experimenting and exploring the e4 technology. To help you better understand what is possible with e4, we are running a series of e4 webinars on...
There is a generally not-known feature in the Eclipse Help which allows to configure the scope of searches. By default, whenever you perform a query, the search scope is restricted to your local help repository (i.e. Javadocs, API references, user guides contributed by plug-ins). However, it is possible to add...