Blog Posts

    Google Summer of Code: Do it now

    Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 21:57 by Wayne Beaton
    The student application deadline is approaching quickly. March 26 is only days away. Thus far, we’ve received 27 applications for Summer of Code projects. Frankly, there aren’t very many good ones. This is good news for students because it means that there will a really good chance that you’ll be...

    Native Look and Feel?

    Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 16:47 by Wayne Beaton
    Every once in a while, I review the SWT snippets. These are available both through the SWT project website and directly from the CVS server. Today, I updated the project from CVS and started looking through the additions. My usual process is to start with the highest numbered snippet and...

    EclipseLink Project Proposal

    Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 11:48 by Wayne Beaton
    I have to admit that I’m darned excited (though apparently not quite excited enough to unleash a stronger expletive) about the Eclipse Java Persistence Platform ( EclipseLink) project proposal. The name “EclipseLink” is an obvious play on the name “TopLink” which is the name of the Oracle Product from which...

    Ship Happens

    Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 23:07 by Wayne Beaton
    In this Eclipse Developer’s Journal article titled “Ship Happens! Insights From the Eclipse SWT Community”, Joe Winchester interviews SWT developers and a host of others—including SWT committers and contributors—about SWT. It’s an interesting read that gives insight into the design goals of SWT and addresses some persistent myths. You can...

    EclipseCon 2007 Demographics

    Friday, March 16, 2007 - 14:09 by Anonymous (not verified)
    When people register for EclipseCon we ask some ‘optional’ questions to better understand who is attending EclipseCon. Last year I shared the results via my blog, so I thought it might be interesting to do the same this year. About 1000 people took the time to answer the questions, so...

    Eclipse is Easy To Extend

    Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 14:37 by Wayne Beaton
    It’s about time that I continued that series I started discussing a rather old blog entry extolling the virtues of Eclipse 2.0 titled “ Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse“. I’m up to reason #4 (If you need to catch up, see reasons 1, 2, 3). #4 – Eclipse is Easy...