GSoC Student Application Deadline today
The GSoC timeline shows April 7, 5:00 PM PDT (00:00 UTC April 8, 2008) as the application deadline. Students, make sure you get your applications in! FWIW, we currently have 120 submissions from students
Blog Posts
Eclipse 3.4 M6 – API Freeze !
Avec quelques jours de retard (il semblerait que l’intégration de p2 ait été assez laborieuse…) voici la cuvée M6 d’Eclipse 3.4 ! Comme pour chaque milestone, voici les nouveautés qui ont particulièrement retenu mon attention : Equinox Beaucoup de sous-projets qui étaient jusqu’alors en incubation ont été gradés et font...
e4 Announcement
EclipseCon was a great source of new ideas, hard work and community building. For this reason, we are pleased to bring you this great news about e4.
The Interesting Part
The Eclipse Examples project has been provisioned! I’ll spend some time later this week setting up the landing page and get to work moving some of my examples into the new project. Frankly, it’s exciting as heck for me. Over the last few days, I’ve been dreaming a bit about...
Tracking Equinox Services in Eclipse RCP
This video podcast shows a simplified example of Equinox services in action. It shows declarative services being dynamically discovered using a service tracker that updates the user interface to show the services that are available. The example also shows Equinox declarative services, and the JFace databinding APIs in use.
Calling All Aspiring T-Shirt Designers
Each year the Eclipse Foundation gives out Eclipse t-shirts at JavaOne. This year we are asking for help to design the shirt. For those Eclipse fashion police, this is your chance to put your money where you mouth is. Please submit your ideas via this bug.
Top OS Influencers
eWeek has published their list of the top 15 Open Source Influencers. I think it represents a pretty good cross section of people that are currently deeply involved with open source software. Of course I am also biased since Mike Milinkovich is #3 on the list. Congrats Mike! Of course...
Eric Rizzo, Top Newcomer Evangelist
Eric Rizzo received the Top Newcomer Evangelist award at EclipseCon 2008. In this podcast, Eric discusses his tireless work with the Eclipse newcomer newsgroup, getting help with Eclipse, and more. The link should also soon be available on Eclipse Live.
GSoC Timeline
The Google Summer of Code timeline is posted in the GSoC FAQ. According to the timeline, students have until March 31 to submit their project proposals. Don’t delay, submit today!
Video Podcast: Creating an Equinox Service using Declarative Services
I just posted a video podcast titled “ Creating an Equinox Service using Declarative Services“. This video podcast briefly describes Equinox services and goes through the steps required to create and run a service using the Equinox Declarative Services (in incubation at the time of recording). For the recording, I...