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I’ve put together a very simple report on the data collected so far by the Usage Data Collector ( UDC). The report itself is static, as querying the database can get quite expensive. I’ve set it up to show a fourteen day period of results. I haven’t setup an automated...

The deadline to vote in the Eclipse Community Awards is this Thursday, Feb. 21 at 5pmET. Vote now for the individuals you believe deserve to be recognized as one of the leaders in our community. btw, one of the races is a virtual tie, so every vote counts. It takes...

Kudos to the Eclipse PDE UI Team (and more specifically to Chris Aniszczyk) for their incredible work on a long-awaited feature in PDE : “type safety” for ID references! So, what is it all about ? Imagine you want to contribute to the org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions extension point, in order to plug...

The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. Sound familiar? Well Denis’ new toys arrived in the mail today. You see, Denis is 100% toy-focused. When he is not riding his snow machine (that Canadian for snowmobile) or his 4-wheeler (Canadian for ATV), Denis like...

Things are heating up and the excitement is building with the the usage data collector ( UDC). It seems that debugging is making a play… The five most popular commands over the past 14 days are: org.eclipse.ui.file.save (8436) org.eclipse.ui.edit.delete (5289) org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.contentAssist.proposals (4983) org.eclipse.ui.edit.paste (4645) org.eclipse.debug.ui.commands.StepOver (4573) I thought that it...

Jeffrey Hammond from Forrester Research has just released a new report on IDE Usage. For those people that are Forrester clients, it is an interesting read. You can also purchase the report but it is $995. Eclipse continues to be one of the primary IDEs and is dominate with Java...

Lots of people know about IBM’s commitment to Eclipse but the awareness is typically of IBM Rational developer tools. What I find intriguing is the rising prominence of Eclipse in the Lotus division. It is pretty clear to me that IBM Lotus is executing on a platform strategy that spans...

Just a reminder to all you folks out there that today is the last day for EclipseCon 2008 early registrations. EclipseCon 2008 is shaping up to be the best EclipseCon ever. More talks, more tracks, Developer Days, hackathons, cool keynotes…. If you are interested in Eclipse technologies for tools, frameworks...

The Usage Data Collector ( UDC) is included in the Eclipse Packaging Project’s ( EPP) “Eclipse IDE for…” packages for the Ganymede M4. More specifically, they are included the packages marked “UDC”. You can find them here. The UDC is included in all the M5 packages. Nightly builds of M5...

A lot more of you are participating with the Usage Data Collector (UDC). We’ve tried to make it very robust, and as low impact on your experience with Eclipse as possible. That said, it’s hard to get things exactly right, so please report a bug if you run into problems...