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...
Last Wednesday, Anne (representing the EMO) announced the graduation review of the Rich Ajax Platform ( RAP) project and created Bug 204737 for comments. The graduation review itself will be held on October 3rd, but the community has already started voting. I don’t know if this is unheard of, but...
After carefully editing out the “ Oprah Incident“, I’ve posted a new podcast of my recent discussion with Stephan Wilzcek about the Open Financial Market Platform Workshop: Services for a Banking Platform workshop that he is co-hosting at Eclipse Summit Europe. The podcast should show up on EclipseLive (and the...
Oprah Winfrey joined a call I was on today. It was very exciting. You should be excited too! I was recording a podcast today with Stephan Wilczek, discussing his upcoming workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe when my microphone cut out and Stephan was regaled with the soothing sound of Oprah...
Eclipse Summit Europe is almost here and I’ve been thinking a lot about the symposia and workshops running on Tuesday, October 9th. More specifically, I’ve been thining about the results. These symposia and workshops offer a great opportunity for like-minded folks to get together and discuss what’s good, what’s bad...
On Monday, I spoke with Christine Mitterbauer about the upcoming “ Integrating Test-Driven Development in the Development Process Symposium” at Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE). Christine, who is a senior software engineer with MicroDoc, is co-leading the symposium with George Mesesan, also from MicroDoc. In the podcast, Christine discusses some of...
Last week at the Eclipse Marketing Symposium, I did a presentation on the results we achieved during the Europa launch. The purpose of the presentation was to share with the community the results of the different programs we put in place during the Europa launch. Measuring the success of a...