Blog Posts

Over the last few days, I’ve been communicating with a developer who was having trouble getting the Properties view to work with his view and objects. It turns out that the real problem was more a lack of understanding of the adapter framework. I came up with three progressive examples...

I’ve created a page for the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe on the Eclipse Wiki. Right now, the page only contains a description of the workshop and a list of the names of folks who asked to attend. The list is made from my mail log, so I...

Ralph and I attended the ECLIPSE-IT International Conference hosted by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Napoli Federico II this week in Naples, Italy. Ralph did a great presentation on building innovation networks. Mine was on one of my favourite topics: test-first development. Frankly, I’m not 100% happy...

Philippe recently asked a question which I think deserves a clear answer: .. .is the EPL just a joke, that everybody can ignore? The answer is, of course, no. We take the Eclipse Public License very seriously. There have been numerous times when we at the Eclipse Foundation been involved...

Bjorn’s recent blog titled “ Why Our Technology Is Not Enough” got me thinking that we need to encourage more face-to-face meetings of local Eclipse enthusiasts. Yes, we have the big conferences like Eclipse Summit Europe, Eclipse World, OS Summit Asia, EclipseCon, etc. but not everyone can go to those...

This is the first year for OS Summit Asia and it seems we are blazing some new territory for developer conferences in China. Aaron Farr is one of the conference organizers, is located in Hong Kong and has written an interesting blog post about how OS Summit Asia is going...

SD Times just did a special report titled ‘ Can Linux Get a Lift from Eclipse‘. Hmm, not sure about the title but the report is pretty decent and the general conclusion is that Eclipse is ideally suited for cross platform development; native, hard core Linux developers will probably stay...

SAP is holding their big developer conference this week in Las Vegas. Seems like SAP is showing off some cool new tools based on Eclipse. Jeff Nolan has an interesting recap of the executive keynote and the demo of SAP’s Composition Environment, which is based on Eclipse. Jeff also discussed...

While communicating with a colleague today, I was reminded today about how painful explaining equals() and hashcode() to new Java developers can be. What’s particularly frustrating is that it’s not really a Java issue. I remember learning all about the ins and outs of equality and hash in Smalltalk, and...

As Wayne pointed out, RAP is hot. However, PDT is also generating a lot of attention. We just finished a webinar on PDT 1.0 and had over 170 attendees; a record for our Eclipse Live webinar series. In case you missed it, you can playback the recording here. I also...