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Could one of our EclipseCon keynoters have a secret 8 year plan in the works? To be specific here I am not talking about Cory Doctorow, because, well, as far as I can tell Cory’s career path is to be Cory Doctorow. And I’m not talking about Sam Ramji although...

It seems that about half of those of us who have opted to submit data gathered by the Usage Data Collector were working this weekend. Working hard it seems: there seems to be, on average, more events gathered per user working on the weekend (there was a bit of a...

Eclipse 3.4M5 vient de sortir. Au programme de cette nouvelle version intermédiaire, et en synthèse : Platforme / SWT Checkboxes à trois états : ça m’aurait bien servi il y a quelque mois pour gérer élégamment un “Oui—Non—Ne sait pas”… Possibilité d’ imprimer directement un contrôle (dans le GC de...

I’ve been collecting my own usage data—along with usage data from several foundation employees and some other volunteers—using the Usage Data Collector (UDC) for quite some time now, so we already have several months’ worth of data. Recently more members of the community have picked up the EPP builds that...

I’m looking forward to the EclipseCon keynotes this year. I’ve only read a few things from Cory Doctorow, but I’ve really enjoyed those few things (take a gander at this bit of work if you want a taste). I hear that he’s a pretty entertaining presenter. I’m also very interested...

You have to love the Register for coming up with graphical headlines. For instance this recent article titled ‘ Eclipse giants squeeze into iPhone’s leather pants‘ which actually references an article about using Eclipse to develop applications for the iPhone. This headline really needs a graphic. Anyone out there want...

Last week, I quietly rolled out an addition to Eclipse Corner that shows the Eclipse projects and releases that an article is compatible with. The change also provides, when appropriate, a link to Bugzilla entries concerned with the article (so you can more easily make comments or suggest corrections for...

For some reason, in the last couple of weeks stories about OSGi and Equinox are popping up everywhere. Two articles about OSGi were recently published: Dave Chappell & Khanderao Kand from Oracle just published an article called ‘ Universal Middleware: What’s Happening With OSGi and Why You Should Care‘ in...

Well, maybe not quite “Super” The nominations for the Eclipse Foundation Board of Director elections are now posted. This is a great collection of nominees. I want to personally thank each of them for putting their names forward. Given the candidates, the Eclipse community will be well served by any...

It’s pronounced “eep!”, as in “meep, meep”, the sound that the roadrunner makes. The Eclipse Examples Project (EEP!) proposal is live and is looking for feedback and input. The idea behind the project is to provide a home for examples of applications, plug-ins, etc. built using Eclipse technology. We’ve already...