Blog Posts

Steve’s recent post titled ‘ I am Eclipse‘ made me think about a famous Canadian advertising campaign titled ‘ I am Canadian‘; you probably need to be Canadian to really appreciate it. However, it makes me wonder if someone wants to do an ‘I am Eclipse’ rant?

The nominations are now open for the Eclipse Community Awards. Last year, the first year for these awards, the winners were announced at EclipseCon 2006 and they were a great success. This year we are going with the similar categories for individual and technology awards. The one new addition is...

Today is the last day to get your talks in for Eclipse Forum Europe. Do it. Do it now.

Recently, there has been a indicators that Eclipse momentum continues to grow. Denis complaining that we continue to run out of bandwidth; Evans Data saying we are challenging Visual Studio and even the fact in October we had 800K download requests of the SDK. Given we already have dominate share...

Linux Journal announced their Editors’ Choice 2006 and Eclipse won the award for Software Development Tool. Great to see Eclipse being recognized in this Journal and another great indication of Eclipse’s momentum in the Linux community. Congratulations to everyone!

If you haven’t had your fill of Mylar yet (I know I haven’t), check out this interview with Mylar Project Lead, Mik Kersten.

Mylar facilitates communication with other team members through the task repository. There’s a handy “Attach context” feature that appears on the task editor that lets you package up your task context and attach it to the task (bug) in the repository. The task context contains the information about the elements...

We have the winners! As part of our birthday celebrations, we are giving away Eclipse sweaters to 20 individuals who signed our birthday card. We had over 2400 people sign the card, so the 20 randomly selected individuals are…… Karol Kleibl Arockia Samy Dominik Najder Neo Wang Krystian Kowalski Paulo...

Mylar hooks to external task repositories. The Mylar download site offers support for integrating with Bugzilla, JIRA, and Trac. There is a long talk proposal for EclipseCon that intends to discuss (among other topics) integration with XPlanner. I’ve been using the Bugzilla integration to triage Eclipse Corner Article submissions and...

Mylar remembers what you were doing when you switch between tasks. This is pretty closely related to my second reason, but I think it deserves it’s own special spot. Not only does Mylar keep track of what you’re doing, it keeps track of it on a task-by-task basis. Here, for...