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Thanks to everyone that sent in a nomination for the Eclipse Community Awards. We received 63 nominations in total, and looking at the different nominees I think the judges will have a difficult time selecting one winner. Good luck to everyone and make sure you attend the award ceremonies at...

As many readers will know, I am a big fan of technical webinars. In fact, we are now on track to do at least 2 webinars a month. Over time I would also like to develop a database of podcasts and screencams/flash demos covering the different Eclipse projects. Right now...

There is a recent article titled Aperi stalled, dead even? It makes the point that Aperi is now available for download but who is going to use it? Actually a vendor, NetApps, who isn’t supportive of Aperi is asking the question. Gee, could this be some good old fashion PR...

I have been on the road this past week, with stops in New York and Zurich on my way to the Open Source Meets Business ( english) conference in Nuremburg. OSMB is an interesting conference. I met a lot of interesting new folks and a few old friends that I...

A call for papers has been added to the Eclipse Forum India; deadline is February 6. All you EclipseCon speakers, here is an opportunity to reuse your content.

The Eclipse Nebula project has grown a lot in the last few months and it now includes an impressive collection of widgets, including a slick looking date and time picker. For the uninitiated, Nebula is a project where new widgets that complement SWT are created. Nebula’s CDataTime widget is pretty...

As already reported by Ed Brill and others, this is, I think, truly high praise from Stephen O’Grady of RedMonk for the capabilities of Eclipse RCP: Notes 8 client is, simply put, one of the nicer looking Eclipse RCP based clients I’ve seen to date, on par with what Microsoft...

We wrapped up the Eclipse PluginFest last night and by all accounts people were very pleased with the outcome. 18 companies, 4 Eclipse projects and around 45 individuals attended the event at the Symbian offices in London. Most of the attendees were from the key vendors in the embedded and...

There are a great many features in Eclipse that I take for granted. One is the handy way that the "Add CVS Repository" wizard handles CVS URLs. The wizard is opened from the "CVS Repositories" view, by selecting menu item "New > Repository location…". When you first see the wizard...

As I mentioned on Monday, incubating projects now have the ability to start developing in parallel with the IP review and approval process. That’s clearly good news for all those new projects eager to get a fast start once they’ve been created. In the same Board meeting where this new...