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A couple people have asked me for data on how fast people upgrade to a new version of Eclipse or specifically 3.3. Unfortunately, ‘data’ is difficult to get on Eclipse and in general open source. However, here is what I can find: In the first two months after the Europa...

Some local artists have expressed their excitement with the revitalized Visual Editor (VE) project at Eclipse. I thought that I’d share their artistic expression. For reasons unknown to me, the artists have opted to remain anonymous…

The Eclipse Foundation party at Eclipse World is starting to take shape. At the party, we will have committers from 9 different Eclipse projects answering questions and showing off the latest and greatest features in their projects. So, if you are going to Eclipse World, make sure you drop by...

The Eclipse community is very good at enabling innovation networks. Eclipse provides the ability for individuals and groups to create collaborative communities that drive innovation in a specific area. CDT is a great example but another up and coming project that appears to have an interesting community of committers is...

We came across this interesting quote in the Eclipse Summit Europe surveys: Ed’s and Rich’s demo of EMF/GMF (domain-specific modeling with the Eclipse Modeling Project) was unbelievable … I couldn’t help having a vision of a cottage where two madly giggling witches dance around a cauldron throwing in OCl, QVT...

In my last post on the topic, I hinted that adapters can be used to loosen the coupling in your code and then showed how you could use adapters to add even more coupling in your code. Originally, I had a domain class, Person, that knew how to provide information...

Based on my initial post, we now have Eclipse DemoCamps being organized in 14 cities around the world, including Budapest, Beijing, Sofia, Chicago, Ottawa, Palo Alto, Toronto and others. The goal of the DemoCamps is to organize local events where individuals can show off the interesting things they are doing...

I’ll be honest with you: I’m not sure what “World Tour” means. At present, I’m planning this “ Europa” tutorial for EclipseWorld, being held November 6-8, 2007 in Reston, Virginia. Since I started off with honesty, I may as well continue with it: I’ve been struggling to decide what constitutes...

I just registered for Eclipse World. I always enjoy this conference, since I get to actually attend as an attendee, unlike EclipseCon, where I never seem to have time to attend the sessions. btw, if you are planning on going, the early registration deadline is tomorrow, October 19. Also, don’t...

Google has just released a feature in Google Reader that allows you to see how many people have subscribed to a feed. I thought it would be interesting to check out some the RSS feeds at eclipse.org. As a reminder, these are just people using Google Reader so the actual...