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Tonight we announced the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. The winners this year represent a great cross-section of the Eclipse community. In the individual category, Ed Merks, blogger/photographer/modeler extraordinaries won the Top Ambassador Chris Aniszczyk (zx) of PDE fame took the Top Committer Remy Suen, a student at the...

I’ve tinkered with the JFace DataBinding, but haven’t had a chance to really dig into it. So, this afternoon I attended “ Understanding JFace Data Binding“, presented by Boris Bokowski (IBM Rational Software), Michael Scharf (Wind River), and Frank Gerhardt (Gerhardt Informatics). I loved the presentation style. They very likely...

I sat in on Marcel Offermans’, Karl Pauls’ (both from luminis) tutorial titled “ Building Secure OSGi Applications“. Marcel and Karl provided a good incremental discovery approach to the tutorial, starting with the pre-OSGi 4.0 way of managing permission and moving quickly into the state of the art. The take-away...

The news at EclipseCon is something the Eclipse community has been doing for a while but not a lot of people know about it. The press announcement at EclipseCon is our new runtime initiative: the creation of the top-level Eclipse RT project and a new Equinox Community. Those who watch...

I just finished registering for EclipseCon and took a look through the flyers in the registration bag. One thing I noticed is the number of cool giveaways, so as a service to all EclipseCon attendees, here is the unofficial EclipseCon Guide to Free Stuff. AMD is giving away 1GB flash...

Jesper was curious about Subclipse use captured by the Usage Data Collector, so I tweaked my queries to stop obfuscating the Subclipse bundles. The results for Subclipse and Subversive use by 465 users over the past 14 days are shown here. First, the commands: org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.commit (invoked 805 times) org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.update (invoked...

We announced the results of the 2008 board elections earlier today. The turnout this year was a modest improvement over last year. There were 148 committer votes cast, and 29 Add-In Provider votes. For 2008 there were 5 spots for each class of elected representative. This means that the Add-In...

Over the past 14 days, 453 (526 in total) of you have consented to upload your usage data to the Eclipse Foundation server. There hasn’t been a lot of change in the top five commands: org.eclipse.ui.file.save 87098 org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordNext 71274 org.eclipse.ui.edit.delete 66449 org.eclipse.ui.edit.paste 57309 org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.goto.wordPrevious 51138 Perspective use has some interesting...

Things are looking great for next week at EclipseCon. Most of my time has been focused on the press outreach but this year I am also moderator two panels. On the press side, we have finished the pre-briefs of the editors and I look forward to seeing some great stories...

I’ll be arriving at EclipseCon on Sunday and will be there all week. While I’m there, I’d like to talk to you. Yes you. And you. You also. To make it as easy as possible, here are some topics we can discuss: The Eclipse Examples Project (which successfully passed its...