Blog Posts

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, it’s been three years since I joined the Eclipse Foundation. This is the first installment in a series of blog posts on the past, present and future of the Eclipse Foundation that I plan to write. Out of curiosity I decided to go...

I made the mistake of signing up on LinkedIn a couple of years back because it seemed like an interesting idea with some potential. I was wrong. This site has no value for me whatsoever, and I’ve asked that they close my account. In about 2.5 years the only times...

I am putting together some stats for the launch of Europa. One thing that always impresses me is the distributed nature of the Eclipse community and specifically the global nature of the Eclipse committer community. For instance, the Europa release includes participation from committers in 19 countries, including Australia, Austria...

Thanks to Roger Dudler we now have a spiffy new Europa graphic. Right now the graphic is linked to our Europa page that features a countdown to June 29, the day of the Europa release. If you would like to help promote the Europa release, we have a ‘ Friends...

June is Europa month. Denis is getting the IT infrastructure ready and I need to get started on the press plans. I am interested in the communities opinion on what is cool in the Europa release. Is there a new project or new feature that you think will be a...

It seems that I’ve been reading a lot of “ Ubuntu Experience” blog entries lately. I decided that, with the arrival of my new laptop, I’d do the same. I recently acquired a brand spanking new Dell Latitude D820 laptop. It’s quite nice and is seriously loaded. The installation of...

Sunday, May 20th marked my third anniversary as the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. My how time flies. My first inkling that this was going to be a very different job was when the phone rang at home a few days before the announcement went out. Answered by one...

A few weeks ago, at Eclipse Forum Europe ( EFE), I presented a talk titled “Test First Development Using Eclipse”. I’m doing the talk again, only this time in a webinar format. The webinar runs tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11h00 EDT (15h00 GMT). Register now! I’m not planning on changing any...

Qi Liang has authored an excellent article titled “ Using the BIRT Chart Engine in Your Plug-in” that discusses how you can incorporate BIRT charts into your own applications. This article introduces the basic concepts of BIRT Chart Engine, explains what BIRT Chart Engine is composed of, and illustrates how...

Monday was a holiday here in Canada, so this morning has been doing the typical post-long-weekend email cleanup, blog reading and so on. Thanks to Bjorn, I came across this little gem: A cynic rips open source. I always enjoy contrarians, really I do. I’ve even been known to play...