Blog Posts

I noticed today, while browsing through Eclipse Plug-in Central ( EPIC), that CloudGarden has released a new version of their Jigloo SWT/Swing GUI Builder. Jigloo, which can be easily added to your Eclipse-based IDE via update site, provides support for building user interfaces in SWT or Swing. It supports the...

I’ve been working on a tutorial titled “ Europa World Tour” that I’m delivering at EclipseWorld in November. This, frankly, is a huge challenge: nobody wants to sit and listen to me drone on about 21 different projects for an entire day. I believe that doing so would constitute cruel...

Last Friday, I spoke with Ralph Mueller, Director of Eclipse Eco-System Development in Europe about the upcoming Eclipse Forum Europe (ESE) 2007 Conference being held on October 10-12 in Ludwigsberg, Germany. You can listen to the conversation here. More podcasts can be found on the Eclipse Live site and newsfeed...

Two weeks ago, I informed the EMO of my intent to propose a new “Eclipse Examples Project” (EEP! for short). I had tried to work out a name that would result in the acronym “EEK”, but I couldn’t make it work (but I digress). The idea behind the project is...

Matt Assay is suggesting Mozilla should be more like Eclipse, specifically in terms of promoting commercial development on top of Firefox. Well sometimes I wish Eclipse was more like Mozilla. Things like SpreadFirefox, the scale of Firefox adoption and the revenue Mozilla generates is fantastic. Something I wish we could...

“Inside the Memory View: A Guide for Debug Providers” by Samantha Chan has been published. This article discusses—oddly enough—how to use and extend the Memory View. The abstract states: There are many programming languages that allow access and discrete control of system memory. If you are a debug provider for...

Paul Glezen has updated his “Branching with Eclipse and CVS” article for Eclipse 3.3. The new article is a two-parter: part one presents a brief branch-and-merge scenario designed to quickly illustrate some branch-and-merge features, and part two shows how to rebase a subbranch with changes from the main branch before...

We will be closing down the Eclipse Community Survey on Friday, September 7, so if you haven’t taken the time to complete it, now is the time. Here are 4 good reasons to do so: You can help provide feedback to the Eclipse community, so we can improve the services...

After much discussion, debate, a bit of crying and bribery (my favourite parenting technique), I have secured one MLP from my daughters’ collection for the Eclipse MLP Tour. They weren’t thrilled about me taking their entire collection on the road but have agreed to part with one. The conversation went...

The uptake on Mark Dexter’s “ Eclipse and Java for Total Beginners” tutorials has been nothing short of phenomenal. He’s showing some impressive (no, staggering) download statistics and a discussion thread attached to his project is filled with kudos. Mark is helping a lot of people get started with the...