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The first top on the Eclipse MLP tour is here in Chicago for the Eclipse Marketing Symposium and Eclipse Members’ Meeting. Yesterday we had a very successful Marketing Symposium and today is the Members’ meeting. We will post the presentations over the next couple of days. The good news for...

In addition to our PDT 1.0 announcement there were two other Eclipse related announcements that I find very interesting. 1) CodeGear has announced their 3rdRails Ruby IDE. Ruby continues to be a hot language and from the initial feedback, CodeGear has done a great job on their support. btw, I...

I hear a lot of good stuff about Eclipse Rich Client Platform ( RCP). I also hear some criticism. Perhaps the most popular criticisms that I’ve heard has to do with the scope of RCP. Some members of the community have the opinion that RCP doesn’t go far enough. It’s...

With a tip of the hat to Nick who is quite a lot better at this than I am, and an apology to Dire Straits… Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it You write your software with the PDT That ain't workin' that's the way you...

We are just a few weeks away from our second annual Eclipse Summit Europe event. Last year’s event was an outstanding gathering of the Eclipse community, and I am definitely looking forward to this year’s as well. ESE is a little bit different from EclipseCon, and in some ways even...

Tomorrow we are issuing a press release announcing the PHP Development Tool (PDT) 1.0 release; some of the coverage has already come out. There is an estimated 4.5 million PHP developers, so this project is a great opportunity to expand the overall Eclipse community. Congrats to the PDT team for...

The great thing about the Eclipse community is the local events that are organized. For instance, the second annual Eclipse Now You Can is being held in Paris on October 12. A great opportunity for the Eclipse community in France to meet.

The program and registration system is now open for OS Summit Asia. As a reminder this is a conference that Apache and Eclipse are organizing in Hong Kong. There is a really strong program featuring Eclipse and Apache committers; some Eclipse highlights include: Chris Aniszczyk is presenting a full day...

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...