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I have been on the road this past week, with stops in New York and Zurich on my way to the Open Source Meets Business ( english) conference in Nuremburg. OSMB is an interesting conference. I met a lot of interesting new folks and a few old friends that I...

A call for papers has been added to the Eclipse Forum India; deadline is February 6. All you EclipseCon speakers, here is an opportunity to reuse your content.

The Eclipse Nebula project has grown a lot in the last few months and it now includes an impressive collection of widgets, including a slick looking date and time picker. For the uninitiated, Nebula is a project where new widgets that complement SWT are created. Nebula’s CDataTime widget is pretty...

As already reported by Ed Brill and others, this is, I think, truly high praise from Stephen O’Grady of RedMonk for the capabilities of Eclipse RCP: Notes 8 client is, simply put, one of the nicer looking Eclipse RCP based clients I’ve seen to date, on par with what Microsoft...

We wrapped up the Eclipse PluginFest last night and by all accounts people were very pleased with the outcome. 18 companies, 4 Eclipse projects and around 45 individuals attended the event at the Symbian offices in London. Most of the attendees were from the key vendors in the embedded and...

There are a great many features in Eclipse that I take for granted. One is the handy way that the "Add CVS Repository" wizard handles CVS URLs. The wizard is opened from the "CVS Repositories" view, by selecting menu item "New > Repository location…". When you first see the wizard...

As I mentioned on Monday, incubating projects now have the ability to start developing in parallel with the IP review and approval process. That’s clearly good news for all those new projects eager to get a fast start once they’ve been created. In the same Board meeting where this new...

I think that everybody agrees: choice is good. And with Eclipse comes lots of choice; just look at Eclipse Plug-in Central (EPIC) (which is pretty much the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Eclipse plug-ins). Given that choice is good, it may seem strange that there are so...

S&S Media has just announced Eclipse Forum India to be held May 28-31 in Bangalore India. This is great news. There is a large growing Eclipse community in India, so it is nice to have an Eclipse oriented conference to serve it.

So the big news in RCP-land this week is coming from Lotusphere, where there is much talk about Eclipse-based rich clients. Check out this screenshot gallery of the next version of Lotus Notes based on Eclipse RCP. This is an awesome demonstration of the ability of RCP to enable compelling...