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Early this summer, we announce the Eclipse RCP training series. If you are building or thinking about building an application based on Eclipse RCP, then you might want to consider registering for one of the 4-day classes. Classes are being offered in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Braunschweig, Brussels, Chicago, Denver, Luxembourg...

Open source business models and open source business strategies are always a hot topic. Therefore, I was really interested in seeing the Actuate CEO discuss their strategy and the successes they are having by participating in the Eclipse community. An interesting read for anyone thinking about this topic.

Sun has decided to rename their stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA. These types of announcements really give the marketing profession a bad reputation. The comments on Johnathan Schwartz blog are pretty brutal. The Sun marketing folks really need to give their heads a good shake. More seriously I think...

The call for participation in the Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) Symposia is out. The symposia will be held on October 9th, the day before the start of the conference which runs October 10th and 11th. Seven sessions are planned: Application Provisioning hosted by Jeff McAffer and Tim Webb Eclipse Modeling...

In July, we posted an updated version of In Harmony with Eclipse (I say we, but Alexey did the work). This new version features the Eclipse SDK 3.3 on top of Harmony 5.0M2. There are downloads for Windows and Linux. The Harmony developers are working hard to make their runtime...

I am back from vacation and have hopefully cleared out my e-mail and blog spam. Last week we announced an Eclipse community survey. The intention is to gather feedback from the Eclipse community to better understand how we make things better. The survey takes 10-15 minutes to complete. As an...

Sitting at home in my pajamas with a fever and a sore throat does not usually put me in an great mood. However, there have been a number of news items this week that really do make for some very good news for the Eclipse community and ecosystem that I...

The Eclipse Europa Reviews Contest results are in. I know that we promised three winners, but we decided in the end that there needed to be four. There were so many submissions in many different languages; it was hard to narrow the selection down to just four. I blogged previously...

I’ve been doing a little work on a problem that we’ve been having with our WordPress implementation at blogs.eclipse.org. The problem is that file uploads don’t work. That is, you currently can’t upload useful things like pictures to make your blog entries all pretty and stuff. I finally managed to...

This may seem a little odd to folks in the know, but I look forward to receiving mail from IPZilla, the system that Eclipse developers use to submit code for IP review by the Eclipse Foundation. Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of notifications about contribution questionnaires (CQ) submitted for...