Blog Posts

    Interesting Times Indeed

    Monday, October 13, 2008 - 12:28 by Mike Milinkovich
    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...

    On Ecosystems

    Friday, October 10, 2008 - 16:12 by Mike Milinkovich
    Next Wednesday, October 15th at 12:30pm Eastern time I will be giving my first web talk via Eclipse Live. The talk is going to be “A Practitioners Guide to Ecosystem Development”. Consider it a peak into what we at the Eclipse Foundation think about how to build and foster ecosystems...

    Is Smalltalk Cool Again?

    Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 16:24 by Anonymous (not verified)
    A number of people in the Eclipse community have roots to Smalltalk; for instance I was the ENVY/Developer marketing guy at OTI. When people talk about the glory days of Smalltalk, some people can get all teary-eyed. I long for the days of ENVY config. maps. So when I read...

    Presentations in Eclipse

    Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 15:03 by Wayne Beaton
    I’ve been tinkering on-and-off for a couple of years on some Eclipse-based presentation software. My primary motivation is my distrust of existing presentation software. Curiously, I get a new head of steam on the “project” every time PowerPoint or Open Office fries one of my documents. Last week was one...

    Build that community!

    Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 16:59 by Wayne Beaton
    Developing a community around your project is hard work. But it’s worth it. I think that every open source project dreams of having a community… at least they should dream of it. A community does stuff for you. As you develop a community of users, you’ll get feedback. Feedback is...