Blog Posts

Michael Dolan has written an interesting commentary on the differences between corporate led open source projects and Foundation led open source projects. He uses Eclipse, Linux, OpenSolaris and OpenDS as examples. It is well worth the read. In my mind Michael has captured the essence of why it is important...

We now have 1000 plug-ins listed on EPIC. This is a significant milestone and we appreciate everyone that has published their products, open source projects and services on EPIC. I know there are many more Eclipse based products that are not listed on EPIC, so please feel free to add...

It is nice to see that the OSGi Alliance has announced a new free level of membership called Supporter. Supporters get to participate in the requirements meetings and early access to the specifications. Hopefully this will allow other organizations and individuals to show their support of OSGi.

Today, we announced a new program that allows individuals to make financial donations to the Eclipse Foundation. We have hooked up a PayPal account that allows you to use a credit card or PayPal account to make a donation to Eclipse. We have also started a program called ‘Friends of...

Jalimo is an open source Java stack for Mobile Linux; their primary targets are Maemo and OpenMoko. It is interesting to see that they are using SWT for their UI component. Some screenshots can be found here. I wonder if there is any overlap or synergy between eRCP and Jalimo?

It’s a pretty staggering number when you think about it. Feedback from attendees of webinars shows that some 99% find them to be a worthwhile way to spend part of your day. If you haven’t tapped into this valuable resource, you should. To see the full schedule of upcoming webinars...

I get a lot of offers to speak at various events throughout the world. Far more than I can attend myself. For those events that I am unable to attend, I try to find somebody (preferably from the local area) to attend in my place. I have a pretty good...

So the staff of your friendly neighbourhood Eclipse Foundation honoured U.S. Thanksgiving last week with an afternoon of bowling. (That would be 5-pin to those not from Canada.) It was sort of like an Eclipse DemoCamp for the athletically challenged. Apparently my misspent youth was worth something after all. I...

Thanks to everyone who attended the Ottawa DemoCamp and especially the presenters. It was great to see demos of products I had not seen before, include Flex Builder, Embarcadaro’s ER Studio and Protecode’s upcoming new product. There are a lot more DemoCamps in the next couple of weeks, so if...

… EclipseCon 2008 Program Committee. I spent a couple of hours yesterday looking through the EclipseCon talk submissions, and I would definitely not want to be in charge of selecting talks. There are simply too many good ones. An embarrassment of riches. A cornucopia of technical info. 230 long talk...