Blog Posts

    Double, double, toil and trouble

    by Wayne Beaton

    We came across this interesting quote in the Eclipse Summit Europe surveys: Ed’s and Rich’s demo of EMF/GMF (domain-specific modeling with the Eclipse Modeling Project) was unbelievable … I couldn’t help having a vision of a cottage where two madly giggling witches dance around a cauldron throwing in OCl, QVT...

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    Adapters, part deux

    by Wayne Beaton

    In my last post on the topic, I hinted that adapters can be used to loosen the coupling in your code and then showed how you could use adapters to add even more coupling in your code. Originally, I had a domain class, Person, that knew how to provide information...

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    Eclipse DemoCamp Are Ready To Roll

    by Anonymous

    Based on my initial post, we now have Eclipse DemoCamps being organized in 14 cities around the world, including Budapest, Beijing, Sofia, Chicago, Ottawa, Palo Alto, Toronto and others. The goal of the DemoCamps is to organize local events where individuals can show off the interesting things they are doing...

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    “Europa World Tour” at EclipseWorld 2007

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Going to Eclipse World

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    Google Reader Subscribers

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    SAP Contributes Memory Analyzer to Eclipse

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    Gusty

    by Wayne Beaton

    I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for a few months and am generally happy with it. It’s not perfect, but it’s very good. I’ve become a bit of a Linux apologist lately. I find myself apologising for the fact that my laptop doesn’t easily connect to external monitors and projectors. I...

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    Team Development

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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