Blog Posts

Voici les transparents de la présentation de p2 que j’ai réalisée aujourd’hui lors de l’évènement Eclipse Now You Can, à Paris. L’objectif était de présenter les défauts de l’ancien mécanisme de gestion des mises à jour d’Eclipse (l’ Update Manager), et d’indiquer comment ils sont corrigés par son remplaçant...

Matt Assay asked the question ‘Is commerical open source possible?’, citing an article about Larry Lessig comments about mixing community and commerce. I have not read Lessig’s new book ‘ Remix‘ but it seems he claims community and commerce don’t mix. Money quote: Money in the sharing economy is not...

I’ve been filling in some of the gaps in unit testing on the Eclipse Examples project’s Eclipse Business Expense Reporting and Tracking (EBERT) component. My focus over the past several days has been to make sure that the user interface tests are as complete as I can make them. I...

I’ve been corresponding with a Brazilian developer who has some questions about SWT. Unfortunately, there’s a language barrier that’s preventing me from being helpful. I know that we have a fairly large contingent of committers from Brazil; does anybody out there have a few cycles that they can spare to...

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...