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I’ve been on the road for the past week and a half in Germany and Turkey. Last week was Wiesbaden for Eclipse Forum Europe, plus meetings in Frankfurt and Karlsruhe. EFE is an “embedded” conference, in the sense that it is embedded inside JAX, one of the largest (the largest?)...

eWeek has named their ‘ Most Important Open Source Applications of All Time‘. It is nice to see Eclipse named in this category. I especially like the description they have for Eclipse: It’s becoming harder and harder to find development tools that aren’t based on Eclipse Can’t disagree with that.

Aaron Farr is an Eclipse RCP expert who has worked on numerous Eclipse RCP applications for various organizations around the world. In this podcast, he discusses some of his experiences with Eclipse RCP. You can listen the podcast here. The podcast feed on the Eclipse Resources page has also been...

I just love saying “TPTP”. Of all the projects we have here at Eclipse, TPTP is the one that has the the most entertaining title. Probably my second favourite project name is “ Buckminster” (though “ Higgins” is also pretty entertaining and conjures up images from Magnum PI). But anyway...

I added this image of Eclipse 3.3M6 running on Windows Vista to the Eclipse Screenshots page. In the process, I’ve started to revamp the page. I’m thinking it’s a little too cluttered: less is more, right? Right. The image… It looks pretty good. It looks as Vista as everything else...

Dilip Thomas the organizer of Eclipse Forum India is ramping up the promotion campaign for the conference. They are doing some billboard and truck advertising in Bangalore and the headline acts include Mik Kersten and Ralph Mueller. Mik and Ralph will be famous before they arrive. Of course there are...

I actually had somebody say this to me: “I can’t use a distro of Eclipse. My boss demands that we only use ‘official’ software from the eclipse.org site. By the way, does it work on Debian Linux?” The blogging recently about including Subversion support in the Eclipse SDK made me...

This year at JavaOne there is a .org Pavilion for open source projects. Simon Phipps has blogged about the details. It would be great to see some Eclipse based products exhibiting in this Pavilion. I understand that the space is filling up fast, so if you are interested, I would...

I blogged before about Higgins, but I recently got an announcement from Lynn about an upcoming webinar and thought that I would pass it along. The Higgins Trust Framework Project: A New Way to Manage Identity Thursday, April 25, 2007 at 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 15:00 UTC/GMT Convert...

I’ve been pretty quiet lately for a couple of reasons. I’ve been spending a great deal of time over the last two weeks preparing for Eclipse Forum Europe ( EFE) this week. I arrived in Germany a little earlier today; with my presentations pretty much good-to-go and all domestic responsibilities...