Blog Posts

L’ outil de cartographie Open Source (licence LGPL) vient de sortir sa version 1.1, et je vous encourage vivement à y jeter un coup d’oeil (bon, il faut télécharger 90 Mo…), car c’est un outil assez bluffant dans sa catégorie ! uDig propose une application Eclipse RCP permettant la visualisation...

We are very excited to announce a new event, called Eclipse Banking Day in NYC, on December 9, 2008 in New York City. This event is for architects, development managers and senior developers who work for a financial institution and use Eclipse. It is an opportunity to learn from Eclipse...

Scott beat me to the punch here, but I think this is interesting, so I want to share more… The Lead Project, a 3-year European Union funded research project, has created an interesting bit of software that they’re calling CoFFEE (Cooperative Face2Face Educational Environment). The focus of the project is...

The Eclipse Mobile Tools for Java (MTJ) just made available their new 0.9 release. Congratulations to the project team for finished their first major release. The major thing about this release is the collaboration between the EclipseME project and Eclipse MTJ. As many of you may know, EclipseME, under the...

Today, I am envious of the SWT developers. Clearly they have made a huge difference in at least one person’s life… Yesterday committer Scott Kovatch checked in some accessibility code for the Cocoa port of SWT. In his post to the platform-swt-dev list, he describes accessibility as an “enormous pain...

I am very happy to announce that we have a new project proposal at Eclipse. Now the fact that we have a new project proposal is not in itself very interesting. We have those all the time. What is new and interesting about this one, however, is that it is...

Next Wednesday, October 15th at 12:30pm Eastern time I will be giving my first web talk via Eclipse Live. The talk is going to be “A Practitioners Guide to Ecosystem Development”. Consider it a peak into what we at the Eclipse Foundation think about how to build and foster ecosystems...

It is with great pleasure that I welcome Konstantin Komissarchik to the Technology PMC. Konstantin brings with him a lot of experience from the Webtools project where is is Project lead for the very active WTP Common Tools project. He is also a committer on numerous projects, a frequent speaker...

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...