Blog Posts

Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of hosting in Ottawa Kazumi Ohgata and Motoki Mori from NEC Soft in Japan. NEC Soft’s VALWAY Technology Center is developing an interesting tool to make it easier to build RCP applications, called Jalcedo. During our meeting we discussed the market for RCP tools...

This is a continuation of last Friday’s post, and is the third installment in my Past, Present and Future of Eclipse series. No conversation about the present world of Eclipse can omit a comment on the vibrancy of the ecosystem. As I mentioned earlier, I believe that the early (and...

As promised, here is my attempt to capture the state of the Eclipse community at present. It is an incredibly daunting task to try to do this in a single blog post. But here goes… The obvious place to start is the recent release of Eclipse Europa. I just checked...

It is a big deal to me when we get a cover story in a magazine. Therefore, I was thrilled to find out that Dr Dobb’s has Eclipse Europa : Eureka! as its August cover. Congratulations to the Eclipse community; another great recognition for the release.

I reported a little while ago about my experiences with Ubuntu. It’s time for a quick update. The short version is that I like it. I like the way that it looks and feel. I even like the OpenOffice software, though it does bizarre things once in a while (need...

The deadline for the OS Summit Asia Call for Papers is next Friday, July 13. If you are thinking of submitting a proposal, now is the time to do it. I also want to encourage people in China, Japan, Korea and greater Asia to submit papers. An important goal of...

Eclipse Blogs does have an RSS feed. Unfortunately it’s hidden. I’ll try to resolve this next week by adding a fancy icons somewhere on the template (somehow, I managed to assume ownership of this sort of thing). In the meantime, tack “/feed” on the end of the URL for the...

My laptop took a tumble this morning. They guy sitting next to me on the flight jumped up, ripped open the hatch on the overhead bins and then jumped out of the way as my laptop (in the bag) tumbled down to the floor. It hit the seat on the...

The coverage of the Europa release has been great. In case you missed it, I thought I would share some of my highlights. Analyst Coverage Cote from Redmonk probably had the best coverage by an analyst. Cote really gets this stuff. Joe Niski from Burton also did a nice overview...

At least one confused member of the Eclipse community spent an uncomfortable night camping outside the Eclipse Foundation offices in hopes of being the first to get a copy of the new fangled Eclipse packages. Unfortunately, this camper didn’t realise that we never use the front door, and it wasn’t...