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Blog Posts
Announcing the Eclipse Banking Day in London
I am pleased to announce we are organizing an Eclipse Banking Day in London on February 12. As with similar events in Frankfurt and New York, the goal is to encourage senior technical people from the financial services community to share their experiences of using Eclipse and open source software...
Happy Holidays
The holiday season is close upon us. The staff at the Eclipse Foundation in Ottawa would like to extend their best wishes to everyone in the Eclipse community. As many of you know, there are a lot of great people that work at the Foundation. I’ve asked each of them...
Getting to Know EBERT
The Eclipse Examples Project has a 0.1 release review scheduled for next Tuesday (December 23). For this review, there are two components: The Eclipse Business Expense Reporting Tool (EBERT) and Image Utilities. I’ll defer discussion of Image Utilities for another day… As the name suggests, EBERT is an application that...
JavaOne Call for Papers
The deadline for the JavaOne Call for Papers is next Friday, December 19, 2008. I am sure lots of people are focused on EclipseCon but it would be great to get some Eclipse talks submited and accepted at JavaOne.
BIRT Extension Mechanism, Part 1: Custom Report Items
Yesterday, Zhiqiang Qian’s new article titled “ BIRT Extension Mechanism, Part 1: Custom Report Items” went live. The article discusses how you can extend BIRT to support new types of report items (things that you can include in your reports). The example shows how to provide support for rotated text.
Recap of Eclipse Banking Day
The Eclipse Banking Day in NYC finished up as a great success. We had approximately 75 people in attendance; representing 14 different financial institutions and 10 ISVs that target the financial industry. I really enjoyed the format of having presenters from the Eclipse and banking community talking about what is...
Gunnar Wagenknecht Discusses CloudFree
I recorded this video with Gunnar discussing the Eclipse CloudFree e-commerce project a Eclipse Summit Europe 2008.
Nominations Now Open for the Eclipse Community Awards
Each year the Eclipse Community Awards recognize individuals, products and technology that make Eclipse such a great community. Nominations are now open for the 2009 edition. For the individual awards, anyone can nominate, via bugzilla, an individual in three categories: Nominations for Top Ambassador Award Nominations for Top Committer Award...