Who is speaking at EclipseCon?
[blip.tv ?posts_id=1417587&dest=-1] Scott Rosenbaum, the program chair of EclipseCon 2009, is here at Eclipse World. I asked Scott who are the keynote speakers at EclipseCon. Listen in….
Blog Posts
A tools platform for cloud computing
Earlier this week Tim O’Reilly published one of those famous ‘O”Reillian’ essays that I think people we reference over the years, called ‘ Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing‘. O’Reilly breaks down the cloud computing landscape into three categories: 1) utility computing, 2) platform as a service, and 3) cloud based...
Actuate’s Open Source Business Strategy
We just finished the Eclipse Marketing Symposium at Eclipse World. One of my favourite presentation was by Rich Guth from Actuate. Rich did a great job describing the Actuate open source business strategy and the success they are having with BIRT Exchange. Some highlights: – Actuate generated $8 million in...
Eclipse Planning Council
[blip.tv ?posts_id=1410982&dest=-1] I have a new video camera that I’ve brought to Eclipse World. I hope to talk to a number of people at the conference about what they do with Eclipse. In this video, we talk to different members of the Eclipse Planning Council that met here at Eclipse...
Committer Satisfaction
I think we all agree that committer satisfaction is important. As the Eclipse Foundation dedicates resources into developing more and better services for committers, it behooves us to have some sense for whether or not we are indeed improving the committer experience. In order to have any sense of the...
BMW wants to build an open source computing platform
Via Matt Assay, it seems BMW is looking for partners to create an open source computing platform for the cars multimedia and entertainment systems. Now that would be very cool project to do at Eclipse. I wonder if BMW would like to come to Eclipse Summit Europe and participate in...
A Busy Week for Eclipse in Mobile
This was a busy week for the mobile phone industry; RIM had their developer conference, Symbian had their conference and Google made available the code for Android. The cool thing about all of these events is that Eclipse played an important role as the developer tools platform. RIM announced a...
Présentation p2 @ Eclipse Now You Can
Voici les transparents de la présentation de p2 que j’ai réalisée aujourd’hui lors de l’évènement Eclipse Now You Can, à Paris. L’objectif était de présenter les défauts de l’ancien mécanisme de gestion des mises à jour d’Eclipse (l’ Update Manager), et d’indiquer comment ils sont corrigés par son remplaçant...
Is Community and Commercial Open Source Possible?
Matt Assay asked the question ‘Is commerical open source possible?’, citing an article about Larry Lessig comments about mixing community and commerce. I have not read Lessig’s new book ‘ Remix‘ but it seems he claims community and commerce don’t mix. Money quote: Money in the sharing economy is not...
JUnit Testing GUIs
I’ve been filling in some of the gaps in unit testing on the Eclipse Examples project’s Eclipse Business Expense Reporting and Tracking (EBERT) component. My focus over the past several days has been to make sure that the user interface tests are as complete as I can make them. I...