Blog Posts

As announced by Mik and others, the Eclipse Mylar project is changing its name to Mylyn. This is the end result of quite a bit of discussion and hard work on the part of Mik, the Myl** team, the webmaster team and the legal folks at Eclipse. As described in...

I am pleased to announce a new open source conference for the Eclipse community, called OS Summit Asia. The conference is scheduled for Nov. 26-30 and will be located in Hong Kong. The really exciting thing for me is that this conference is being organized as a collaboration between the...

This is just a very cool announcement. IBM has contributed their STEM technology to the Eclipse OHF project. STEM has been developed on top of Eclipse and helps model the spread of infectious diseases. Granted not everyone needs to track infectious diseases but a goal of contributing it to open...

Yesterday, Ian posted an entry in his blog asking for community help to test a new downloads page that we’d like to realize for the Europa release. On this page are several new distributions of Eclipse. I’ve been testing various version of these packages for a while, and—for a first...

Something we would like to accomplish during the Europa release is to make it easier for our user community to download Eclipse. The existing download model requires you to start with the SDK and then start adding projects and features. However, for the millions of Eclipse users the SDK is...

Microsoft is hosting the TechEd conference this week. One of the announcements to come out is a new version of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio Shell. Reading some of the coverage, it sounds a lot like Eclipse. In fact, Peter Varholl of Remond Magazine points out that imitation is the...

Stephan Janssen, of Javapolis fame, has started a very cool new web site called Parleys.com. We have been working with Stephan to host some of the EclipseCon 2007 sessions recordings on Parleys. The first one is now available! Go check out Dieter Krachtus’s presentation Eclipse on Swing. I hope over...

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, it’s been three years since I joined the Eclipse Foundation. This is the first installment in a series of blog posts on the past, present and future of the Eclipse Foundation that I plan to write. Out of curiosity I decided to go...

I made the mistake of signing up on LinkedIn a couple of years back because it seemed like an interesting idea with some potential. I was wrong. This site has no value for me whatsoever, and I’ve asked that they close my account. In about 2.5 years the only times...

I am putting together some stats for the launch of Europa. One thing that always impresses me is the distributed nature of the Eclipse community and specifically the global nature of the Eclipse committer community. For instance, the Europa release includes participation from committers in 19 countries, including Australia, Austria...