Blog Posts

Ganymede is just around the corner, and I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to the many Eclipse committers, project leaders and contributors who have all participated in its success. You have done our community proud. I was tempted to list some of those who have made...

I’m working on a presentation about Ganymede. I’ve already got some slides from the talk Mike and I did at JavaOne 2008, and am in the process of adding material from Chris’ article on developerWorks. I’ve scavenged a lot of material from the Eclipsepedia wiki on the topic and have...

Last week, I wrote about a new report I added for the UDC data that shows project pairings “in the wild”. In a comment, Nick effectively killed my weekend. Nick, my wife’s not happy with you. I showed her your picture. Be careful. The report can now be sorted on...

Mustafa has posted a cool screencam of shared editing using Eclipse. He and a friend, Thomas, chat via Skype while they work together on the same file in shared editor. It’s about as good as real side-by-side pair-programming… It may even be a little better (though pair-programming traditionalists may baulk...

Next week I get to attend two Ganymede Demo Camps. The first being the Eclipse Day at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA. Unfortunately, the event is full so we are not accepting any more registrations. The second demo camp will be on Thursday here in Ottawa. We still have...

Elias posted this note on the Riena Dev list. I think it’s interesting reading that deserves a broader audience. So… here it is. — From my personal point-of-view (having done a couple of RCP projects) the benefit of Riena that is important to *me* is, that Riena will provide a...

I decided that it might be cool to find out which projects are being used together in the wild, so I wrote a new report using data collected by the Usage Data Collector (UDC). The report shows a table where each row contains a pair of projects and a number...

Vous aviez peut-être pu remarquer qu’un concours avait été lancé il y a quelques semaines par Nick Boldt pour que les membres de la communauté Eclipse réalisent des posters pour la sortie de Ganymede. La soumission de posters est désormais terminée : vous pouvez les voir ici, et voter pour...

Matt Assay recently covered the Accenture / SpringSource announcement about Spring Batch. Matt is absolutely correct in pointing out that the real news is that Accenture is actively and publically helping to support SpringSource in the project. This is really great news and I hope to see more. However, the...

Kirk Knoernschild from Burton Group has published the results to an informal survey he fielded on OSGi usage. I don’t think Kirk or anyone would claim this is a statistically significant survey or the sample was unbiased but I do think it raises some interesting results. The majority of people...