Blog Posts

You may recall a post a while back about a new and exciting blog titled “Eclipse Sucks”, hosted by a German post-graduate student Hobel. If you followed his blog, you’d have noticed that it started out very negative of Eclipse, but appeared to get warmer over time. Now the blog...

A new Eclipse Corner article has been published that discusses the use of Maven 2 to build Eclipse Plug-ins. The abstract reads: In a mature and agile development environment, it is vital that the developers are kept productive and that builds are done continuously and dependably. Eclipse is a great...

I’ve been focusing a lot of my attention on Eclipse Web Tools over the past few days. I’ve been looking mostly at how one builds servlets, JSPs, and EJBs using Eclipse Web Tools. I’ve been using Web Tools 2.0M4 (along with its specified prerequisites). Today, I turned my attention to...

Last year we organized the first EclipseCon Blogger party. Is anyone up for a repeat engagement? I suggest we hold it Sunday, March 4 from 6-8pm. I know some people come in late Sunday night but every other night just seems booked with other parties and BOFs. I will buy...

The finalist for the Eclipse Community Awards have been announced. Congratulations to everyone. The winners will be announced Monday, March 5 at EclipseCon. Good luck to all.

I came across two good blog post this morning that reminded me about the first principles of marketing and community building for an open source project. Adventures in Open Source makes the point that for an open source project to be successful to has to be ‘ extremely useful‘ and...

Evans Data has just released a new report that shows Eclipse adoption has increased 31% in India and 20% in Brazil over the last 6 months. The might explain why are download numbers continue to climb. I also hope it means good things for Eclipse Forum India. I would love...

Scheduling is hard. I have developed an incredibly deep respect for Richard Gronback. I guess I already had a lot of respect for him anyway, what with the Modeling Project and the GMF thing and all… Scheduling 33 BoFs is hard work. Scheduling 200 sessions must drive you to the...

Today I managed to schedule all but one of the proposed BoFs for EclipseCon 2007. As of about an hour ago, there were 33 proposals. The one that I didn’t schedule asked for a room on Sunday night; as of now, I don’t have any Sunday night rooms to book...

Today, I spend some quality time getting friendly with DocBook and CSS. More specifically, I spent time tuning an XSL stylesheet to customize the way that Eclipse Corner DocBook-structured documents are rendered, and a CSS to customize the way that they’re displayed. In the grand scheme of things, I rate...