La quatrième édition d’ EclipseTime se tiendra les 23 et 24 juin 2009 à Toulouse. Cette année, vous aurez en quelque sorte droit à trois évènements en un puisque la conférence se voit divisée en deux journées (au lieu d’une seule les années précédentes), et que la soirée du 23...
I get a lot of direct email with questions about Eclipse. Now that I’m being copied on mail sent to emo@, I’m getting a lot more. I actually enjoy these emails. It’s a great opportunity for me to learn about how Eclipse is being used, and what people outside our...
Tomorrow, May 15 is the last day to provide feedback to the Eclipse Community survey. We would appreciate 5 minutes of your time to complete the survey. Respondents will also be entered into a draw to win cool Eclipse swag. The results will be published in early June.
It’s been a busy last few weeks. I wrapped up the month of April with a great trip to Mainz, Germany for the Eclipse Forum Europe conference followed by a quick hop to Istanbul, Turkey for EclipsIST. Both are great shows that I intend to attend again in the future...
The EPP project has published for download the new Galileo M7 packages. The observant reader will notice two new packages: 1) Eclipse IDE for PHP Developers and 2) Pulsar for Mobile Java Developers. Now is the time to start testing and providing feedback to the project teams.
We launched the Eclipse Community Survey to collect feedback on how people are using open source software and Eclipse. We plan to publish the results in June. It takes about 5 minutes to complete, so I hope you will give us your feedback. Deadline for responding is May 15, 2009.
In Canada, camping season traditionally begins the third weekend in May, known locally as the May two-four weekend. In the Eclipse community, we are getting ready for a new season of Eclipse DemoCamps starting May 18-June 26. We have DemoCamps organized in 27 cities around the world, including for the...
This year we had the opportunity to record some of the sessions at EclipseCon. Over the next month we will be rolling them out 20-30 recordings on Eclipse Live. Below are links to the first 6. Enjoy. EclipseCon 09: Take the Fat Man Off your Application and it Will Run...
I don’t normally follow the RubyOnRails community but a current controversy in the RoR community caught my attention. The heart of the matter is a recent conference presentation, titled ‘CouchDB – Perform like a porn star’, that offended a number of the community members. More details can be found in...
Boy, am I on some kind of blog binge this week. It’s amazing how a few weeks without travel helps. Dana Blackenhorn wrote a piece earlier today discussing Matt Asay’s article on why the Apache license is better than the GPL. In his article, he states the following: If your...