I’ve been having a hard time scaling this year. I’ve received far more requests for appearances than I’ve been able to satisfy. With this in mind, I’m undertaking an effort to update the Eclipse Evangelism site to be more useful (or, to put it another way… useful). I’ve started some...
Each year at EclipseCon, the Eclipse Community Awards recognize some of the key individuals and technologies that help make Eclipse such a great community. This year is no different and the nominations for the awards are now open, so we need your help to nominate individuals and technologies. Deadline for...
Carey Schwaber at Forrester Research has just published an article on the ‘ Best Practices In Release Management‘. Eclipse, specifically our release trains, is used as a case study for demonstrating best practices. btw, I am sorry but the reports are only accessible to Forrester clients.
We’ve just published a new article on Eclipse Corner titled “Defining Generics with UML Templates” by James Bruck: Generics in Java have been around for a while but support for mapping generically specified artifacts in UML to their Ecore representation is new to UML2 2.1. This article will walk the...
Every time I look at RAP, I break into giggling fits. This stuff is just plain cool (though it does make it hard to convince my wife that I am indeed working in my home office, but I digress…) I’m planning to speak briefly about RAP during my “Eclipse and...
This week a number of interesting Eclipse based products came to my via Google alerts. Really does remind one that Eclipse is being used in all sorts of industrys. Ambric announced their Eclipse based tools for programming massively parallel processors. btw, if you are looking for a job in Oregan...
Michael Dolan has written an interesting commentary on the differences between corporate led open source projects and Foundation led open source projects. He uses Eclipse, Linux, OpenSolaris and OpenDS as examples. It is well worth the read. In my mind Michael has captured the essence of why it is important...
We now have 1000 plug-ins listed on EPIC. This is a significant milestone and we appreciate everyone that has published their products, open source projects and services on EPIC. I know there are many more Eclipse based products that are not listed on EPIC, so please feel free to add...
It is nice to see that the OSGi Alliance has announced a new free level of membership called Supporter. Supporters get to participate in the requirements meetings and early access to the specifications. Hopefully this will allow other organizations and individuals to show their support of OSGi.
Today, we announced a new program that allows individuals to make financial donations to the Eclipse Foundation. We have hooked up a PayPal account that allows you to use a credit card or PayPal account to make a donation to Eclipse. We have also started a program called ‘Friends of...