Blog Posts

Today, while walking through the halls of EclipseCon, I ran into Ed Klimas. I’ve known Ed for years. His former company, Linea Engineering, and my former company, The Object People, did a lot of work together in the 90s, but it’s been years since we’ve seen each other. Ed’s yet...

I came across this blog posting a few days ago. The date on the posting is recent, but the content makes me believe that it’s a repost of something considerably older. If you look carefully at the text and images, it’s pretty clear that the author is talking about Eclipse...

Much to my dismay, it looks like Jonathan Schwartz has denied us the opportunity for a return engagement of the NetBeans Girls. Roumen was kind enough to make a plea for us to his management but came back with a rather lame excuse; they actually want Eclipse to pay for...

The week before EclipseCon is typically for me the second busiest week of the year; the busiest being EclipseCon. Most of my time is spent preparing for the press; although in previous years I’ve also been responsible for the exhibitors but this year Donald has done a great job. I...

In this podcast, Jeff McAffer, Eclipse Equinox Project Lead, discusses Eclipse membership in the OSGi Alliance, the factors motivating the adoption of OSGi as the component model for Eclipse, the cool places that OSGi turns up, and the rosy future of OSGi and Equinox. Unfortunately, the recording quality of this...

I neglected to mention yesterday that the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework ( ATF) project has a screen cam demonstration of the JavaScript debugger in action. You can see that screen cam here. There are more ATF screen cam demonstrations here.

I mentioned earlier that I have been working with the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework ( ATF). Before today, my experience with JavaScript has been limited, and generally involved a lot of screaming in frustration. This afternoon, I spent some time with the ATF JavaScript debugger. The best part is that...

I subscribe to the EPIC RSS feed that feeds to me the new and updated plugins that are added to EPIC. There seems to be about 2-3 new plugins per day. Lots of interesting stuff being developed in the Eclipse community. Sometimes something new catches my eye. For instance this...

Last week I started playing with the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework ( ATF). Until last week, I had really never looked very hard at Ajax. I’m familiar with the base technologies, and the concepts behind it, but I had never really done anything with it. I figured that tinkering with...

There is a conversation brewing in the blogsphere on the topic of when a company can be called ‘open source’. Nat Torkington of O’Reilly seems to have started the discussion as he attempts to build the agenda for OSCON. Allison Randal and Matt Assay have also chimed in. IMHO, the...