Blog Posts

If you take a look at some of the recent reports generated from the usage data collector, you may notice that there are a lot of custom (i.e. not from eclipse.org) views, editors, and perspectives out there, but not so many custom commands. This is merely my own observation based...

Whenever I think of p2, I just can’t shake the image of the little dog in the stories we used to make up in French class in elementary school. “Pauvre Pitou. Il a sauté par la fenêtre…” But I digress… Today I did a little experiment with p2. I downloaded...

I’ve been hacking over the last couple of days on an update to the Understanding Layouts in SWT (the original is here). I’ve had my eye on updating this article for a while, but have been skittish about tackling it because of all the screenshots. Bug 221251 forced me to...

No not that p2 – P2 the movie. Given the discussion about our p2, I just couldn’t resist. I know the p2 team is working extremely hard to make p2 a killer feature. Making any change as significant as p2 will always strike fear in people, including me. However, one...

The first thing I asked about “ 20 Things” was for the pop culture source of the title. Apparently (according to McQ), there is none. The first thing that I noticed about “20 Things” was that there are only 17 things on the list (at least there were only 17...

I sat in on the “Modeling the Workbench” breakout session at the E4 Summit. Before I go too far, it’s worth pointing out that there is a lot of activity going on here and I’m only able to capture some small part of it. The information that I’m capturing is...

After the coffee break, we had a discussion of making resources available for the E4 effort. Jochen Krause (RT Project Lead, RAP Project Lead) from Innoopract, the major contributor to Eclipse RAP, is dedicating 3-4 developers to the E4 effort. Innoopract is particularly interested in working toward better Eclipse integration...

I’m at the E4 Summit this morning. I’m completely surrounded by Germans (which is a Good Thing™). To my front is Boris Bokowski of the Platform team (who actually lives in Ottawa). To my right is Jochen Krause from RAP. Behind me is Christian Campo from Riena and Michael Scharf...

The latest shiny new toy in the social networking area seems to be twitter. If you haven’t heard of twitter, think of it as really small blog posts (140 char limit) and the ability to follow other people’s ‘tweets’. I’ve spent the last couple of months participating in twitter. I...

Well… mostly. The code for the Eclipse Business Expense Reporting Tool (you may have noticed that I’ve changed what the ‘T’ stands for) has been checked into CVS per the approval of CQ 2310 and subject to the constraints of the parallel IP process. I don’t consider this a complete...