Blog Posts

Philippe recently asked a question which I think deserves a clear answer: .. .is the EPL just a joke, that everybody can ignore? The answer is, of course, no. We take the Eclipse Public License very seriously. There have been numerous times when we at the Eclipse Foundation been involved...

Bjorn’s recent blog titled “ Why Our Technology Is Not Enough” got me thinking that we need to encourage more face-to-face meetings of local Eclipse enthusiasts. Yes, we have the big conferences like Eclipse Summit Europe, Eclipse World, OS Summit Asia, EclipseCon, etc. but not everyone can go to those...

This is the first year for OS Summit Asia and it seems we are blazing some new territory for developer conferences in China. Aaron Farr is one of the conference organizers, is located in Hong Kong and has written an interesting blog post about how OS Summit Asia is going...

SD Times just did a special report titled ‘ Can Linux Get a Lift from Eclipse‘. Hmm, not sure about the title but the report is pretty decent and the general conclusion is that Eclipse is ideally suited for cross platform development; native, hard core Linux developers will probably stay...

SAP is holding their big developer conference this week in Las Vegas. Seems like SAP is showing off some cool new tools based on Eclipse. Jeff Nolan has an interesting recap of the executive keynote and the demo of SAP’s Composition Environment, which is based on Eclipse. Jeff also discussed...

While communicating with a colleague today, I was reminded today about how painful explaining equals() and hashcode() to new Java developers can be. What’s particularly frustrating is that it’s not really a Java issue. I remember learning all about the ins and outs of equality and hash in Smalltalk, and...

As Wayne pointed out, RAP is hot. However, PDT is also generating a lot of attention. We just finished a webinar on PDT 1.0 and had over 170 attendees; a record for our Eclipse Live webinar series. In case you missed it, you can playback the recording here. I also...

Seems like MLP’s are spreading thru the software industry. Sun has their MLP Jonathan, Eclipse has MLP Java and now the Rails guys are giving away MLP’s for their Rails Rumble. Of course being the hip Rails guys, their pony has ‘pony power’.

This morning, when I arrived at the office, a copy of the new Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java™ Web Applications book was sitting on my desk. It’s always fun to get new books (while I’m excited about this, I’m not nearly as excited as my friend Jim is about...

I decided to take podcasting in a new direction and interview myself. Okay, it’s not really an interview; it’s more like 15 minutes of me rambling on about the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, the Eclipse Summer of Code project, and cross-over between the two. I have a couple...