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Personally, I think Canada is a great country (I am a little biased). And in this great country, there are many wonderful cities: Victoria (British Columbia), IMHO, is the best. Curiously enough, I spent some of the best years of my life there. For the uninitiated, Victoria is a garden...

I’ve been spending a lot of my time lately talking with organizations who are building Eclipse applications. Some are building IDEs based on Eclipse technology, others are building their end-user applications using Eclipse RCP. The main focus of these discussions is to try and figure out what sort of help...

Believe it or not we are coming up to 5 years since Eclipse was first made available as an open source project. It was November 7, 2001, when IBM made available for download the Eclipse project. Lots has happen since and I think this birthday is a cause for celebration...

There is really a lot of cool things that are being developed on Eclipse RCP. Case in point, Josh Reed sent me an e-mail about his RCP based application called PSICAT, graphical editing software for stratigraphic columns and visual core description diagrams. Basically, this is what geologists use to describe...

I’m not all that happy with the term “plug-in”. Wikipedia defines the term as follows: A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that interacts with a main application (a web browser or an email program, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. A little further down...

During our recent webinar on Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), one of the attendees asked this question: Is it possible to integrate Voice Over IP (VOIP)? The answer is simple: absolutely! In fact, lots of technology can be integrated with RCP. The Eclipse Communication Framework ( ECF) project is currently...

Channing Walton is our Eclipse Callisto Great Bugs Competition winner. You can view Channing’s entry into the competition here. Channing’s bug was selected randomly from the set of all nominated great bugs netting him a great “ Eclipse Bike” from the good people down at Pecco’s (here in Ottawa). Apparenly...

We have just released 3 more Eclipse RCP Case studies. The highlight is JP Morgan’s use of Eclipse RCP to build an internal platform for creating banking applications. More than just creating individual desktop applications, they are using RCP to create an generalize platform that all new custom applications can...

The JBuilder team at Borland, sometimes known as DevCo, is gearing up for the release of Peleton. As part of the launch they are inviting Eclipse plug-in vendors to participate in their partner program. I’m really looking forward to the upcoming release of Peleton. It should be a great addition...

Eric Arseneau, a Lead Researcher at Sun Microsystems (and former Smalltalker), has offered to come in an show us a demonstration of the Sun SPOT Wireless Sensor devices on Wednesday morning next week ( October 4, 2006) at 10:00 am. Eric’s main area of research is in the Squawk VM...