Blog Posts

There’s no point in being subtle. You must try Mylar. Do it now. Today. I have to admit that I’ve been meaning to look at Mylar for a long time, but haven’t gotten much further than the demos. I finally took the time to load it in and start getting...

I have a soft spot in my heart for Borland. As with many people, Turbo Pascal was the first IDE I used and I even did some programming with Turbo Prolog. So it is great to see that Borland’s CodeGear has announced the release JBuilder 2007. Previously named Peleton, JBuilder...

We have three new webinars scheduled over the next couple of weeks. Coming up this week on Tuesday November 21, Building a Great GUI using Eclipse RCP features two Eclipse Platform committers: Kevin McGuire and Boris Bokowksi. Go here to register. On December 14, another RCP webinar titled ‘ Packaging...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I have no idea why, but this question has come up in several different emails to the “license at eclipse.org” mail id this week. Maybe it’s because of Sun’s recent announcement that it was releasing Java under the GPL. The question has been asked...

The Eclipse Birthday Card has been a great success. Over 2000 people have signed the card. We are planning to keep the card active until the end of November and then we will do a randon draw to giveaway 20 Eclipse sweaters. A couple of things that jumped out at...

A recent poster eclipse.newcomer asked about customizing the look and feel of an Eclipse application. This is something that I’ve been meaning to try out for a long time, so I’ve started my journey down the path of customizing the look and feel of some of my sample applications. Eclipse...

I decided to take a look at the OpenJDK today. I directed my attention to the OpenJDK load instructions. There’s an omission in the instructions. They specify that the user name required to access the code is “$USER”. After several unsuccessful guesses at what this meant, I turned to the...

For those readers that might have missed the big news, Sun announced they were releasing their implementation of Java under the open source GPL license. I’ve probably spent far too much time reading the different coverage but in my books David Berlind has the best analysis and InfoQ had the...

So congratulations are clearly in order for Simon Phipps, one of my favourite sparring partners. I’m sure that when he started at Sun to open source Java he had no idea what a long and winding road it would be. I definitely applaud his perseverance. This was certainly a bold...

The topic of Eclipse SWAG (Souvenirs, Wearables, Accessories and Gifts) up every once in a while. There are a bunch of Eclipse shirts and hats out there already, but is there enough? Do you need Eclipse SWAG? What would you like to see: hats, shirts, monogramed undies? Are you willing...