I’ll be honest with you: I’m not sure what “World Tour” means. At present, I’m planning this “ Europa” tutorial for EclipseWorld, being held November 6-8, 2007 in Reston, Virginia. Since I started off with honesty, I may as well continue with it: I’ve been struggling to decide what constitutes...
I just registered for Eclipse World. I always enjoy this conference, since I get to actually attend as an attendee, unlike EclipseCon, where I never seem to have time to attend the sessions. btw, if you are planning on going, the early registration deadline is tomorrow, October 19. Also, don’t...
Google has just released a feature in Google Reader that allows you to see how many people have subscribed to a feed. I thought it would be interesting to check out some the RSS feeds at eclipse.org. As a reminder, these are just people using Google Reader so the actual...
SAP made a big Eclipse announcement today at their SAP TechEd in Munich. They announced their intention to open source their memory analyzer at Eclipse. The tool already exists, so more information can be found here. It is great to see SAP making their first code contribution to Eclipse. SAP...
Look who’s given Eclipse some love…
Months ago, I started a series based on a 2002 blog posting about Eclipse titled “Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse”. As of July, I’ve managed to get through first eight reasons (the previous entry is here). Today, I’m going to look at reason number nine: Team Development Eclipse is designed...
I’ve posted a podcast that I recorded last week with Alexey Aristov, co-project lead of the proposed Open Financial Market Platform ( OFMP) project. In this podcast, Alexey discusses the history and nature of the project, some of the challenges that lay ahead, and the results of the workshop held...
I am in Portland for the annual GOSCON conference, the government open source conference. I spoke at session this morning on using open source to adopt open standards; I think the session went well. One of the reasons I wanted to come to GOSCON is that I believe the next...
In my last installment, I showed how—by making a domain class implement IPropertySource and (naturally) implementing the methods required by that interface—you can expose properties from a domain class that can be viewed and modified by the Properties view. In that posting, I suggested that implementing IPropertySource introduces a tight...