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Yesterday, Zhiqiang Qian’s new article titled “ BIRT Extension Mechanism, Part 1: Custom Report Items” went live. The article discusses how you can extend BIRT to support new types of report items (things that you can include in your reports). The example shows how to provide support for rotated text.

The Eclipse Banking Day in NYC finished up as a great success. We had approximately 75 people in attendance; representing 14 different financial institutions and 10 ISVs that target the financial industry. I really enjoyed the format of having presenters from the Eclipse and banking community talking about what is...

I recorded this video with Gunnar discussing the Eclipse CloudFree e-commerce project a Eclipse Summit Europe 2008.

Each year the Eclipse Community Awards recognize individuals, products and technology that make Eclipse such a great community. Nominations are now open for the 2009 edition. For the individual awards, anyone can nominate, via bugzilla, an individual in three categories: Nominations for Top Ambassador Award Nominations for Top Committer Award...

Business Week just published the ‘CEO Guide to Open Source Software’ and let me say it is pretty lame. I can only hope that most CEO’s will look further than this report to be educated about Open Source Software. The report is essentially a rehash of the messages from...

This YouTube video shows Eclipse Higgins being used to authenticate a user and grant access for that user to GMail. The video is just one of a collection of videos showing some advanced authentication mechanisms that Google research is investigating. Higgins in huge in the identity management space. The project...

Tim Bray has written an insightful piece describing his perscription for a healthier Sun, at the end he suggested others might want to do the same, so here is my version. Product Strategy Sun’s problem is not that they don’t have good products, it is they have too many products...

Just a friendly reminder that the Eclipse Banking Day in New York City starts in two weeks time on December 9. We have a great program that features talks on Equinox, EMF, RAP, BIRT/DTP and others, plus speakers from Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital and UBS. It should be...

I was able to track down 3 more Symposium leaders at ESE. Hear what they had to say about the highlights of their symposiums. Jeff McAffer, co-leader of Eclipse RT PMC, discusses the highlights of the RT Symposium. [blip.tv ?posts_id=1493992&dest=-1] Christine Mitterbauer talks about the results of the Test-Driven Development...

Well almost live from Eclipse Summit Europe, I am asking each Symposium leader to talk about the highlights of their Symposium. First up is Ed Merks as he discusses the Modeling Symposium [blip.tv ?posts_id=1492603&dest=-1] Boris Bokowski discuss the e4 Symposium. [blip.tv ?posts_id=1492647&dest=-1] Doug Gaff talks about the Embedded Symposium [blip.tv...