Blog Posts

“ Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs ” by John Arthorne and Chris Laffra is one of my favourite books on Eclipse . I use it pretty much daily (at least I do when I’m wading into a part of Eclipse that I haven’t worked with yet). It’s true that some parts...

Last week at EclipseCon we presented the ‘Pillars of Eclipse’ at the members meeting and to the press. The goal was to provide a high level categorization and explanation of the different areas that the Eclipse community is currently engaged. I also wrote a Guest Column in SD Times that...

I’m gearing myself up for a lot of time on the road. I’ll be carrying the Eclipse banner to Linux World (Boston) next week where I’ll be talking about Eclipse RCP. I’ll be getting some help staffing the booth in the Expo from Eric Clayberg (Instantiations), John Graham (Sybase), and...

I recently came across two blog postings about Eclipse and Microsoft. The first talking about Eclipse3.1 running on the IKVM . The second being a bit more contraversial, by Keith Harrison-Broninski titled ‘ Eclipse and the end of the Microsoft monopoly ‘. Of course it is always nice to see...

I presented a few slides during my short talk. I’ve uploaded them to the conference site and expect them to appear somewhere there. I’ve also posted them on the evangelism site. Due to obvious time constraints, there’s not a lot of material there. The slides are mostly scavenged from other...

So far, there’s three great bugs nominated by Eclipse developers (at least there are three at this point). I don’t imagine that one of them ( 132773 ) is going to get past the PMC (I’m a little distressed that it’s assigned to me), but two is a pretty good...

In keeping with the Angelina Jolie theme established by Joel earlier in the week, I incorporated images of her and her beau in my short talk today. I tried to work in some Lynard Skynard, but could figure out how while keeping myself under the allowed nine minutes. My demonstration...

In case you were wondering who is attending EclipseCon, I pulled some numbers from the information we collected at registration time. Pretty obvious this is a serious technical conference; 75% of the attendees being developers, architects and development managers. JDT is the project used by most attendees but RCP and...

I’m surprised by the number of people who have asked for a higher resolution image of the “Eclipse Legal Process” poster that I blogged about yesterday (only two commenters on the blog, but I’ve been approached more directly by others). Okay, I’ll level with you… I’m surprised that anybody asked...

While I’m on the topic of Matisse… I spoke today with Eric Clayberg from Instantiations. Eric is superhuman. Instantiation’s Swing Designer now supports the GroupLayout layout manager that’s a huge part of fuss around Matisse (and a new addition to Mustang). It’s first class support that demos very very well...