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Eclipse Forum Europe starts on April 23, 2007 at the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden, Germany. I really love this conference, so I’m going to be there. The call for papers ends on December 18th. Be sure to get your submission in. … Continue reading →

Some Monday mornings you just know it is going to be a great week. This morning in my e-mail I find a Google alert with the title ‘ The Coming Eclipse of Visual Studio‘. The article is based on a press release from Evans Data that indicates in Europe/EMEA Eclipse...

A bunch of my friends and I get together on new year’s day for an annual tradition. This tradition involves using a chainsaw to cut a hole in the ice of the Rideau River (in beautiful, but somewhat chilly, Ottawa), clearing out the ice and then taking turns jumping into...

Mylar focuses you on your task. I’m starting to think of this in terms of top down development. I’ve always done software development using a top-down or "needs driven" approach. That is, I’ve always started by building the tests, then the layer being tested, followed by subsequent underlying layers. I...

Automagic Java Method Folding. As you navigate through your class, Mylar keeps track of the methods you touch (thereby expressing interest). When you open the class, it automatically folds away the methods you aren’t interested in. Of course, the more time you spend with your cursor in a method, the...

In the past two days, I’ve come across two new interesting RCP applications. Collaber is a collaboration framework that is built on RCP. One point of interest is that is seems to be developed in Hyderabad, India. It really seems like the Eclipse community is growing strong in India. Wazaabi...

I’ve been using Mylar for about two weeks and I’m still really impressed. I have been doing some Java development these past weeks, but most of my work has involved editing PHP files and triaging Eclipse Corner Articles bugzilla entries. I’ve been doing it all with Mylar. The first thing...

Cote from Redmonk has written an interesting article about ALM tools for Agile programming. He points out that Mylar looks like an interesting platform for integrating tools, people and processes. The last couple of weeks I’ve been spending a fair bit of time talking to people about Mylar and listening...

Well at least he got honourable mentioned as one of the top system admins out over 5000 nominees. Congratulations to Denis. He certainly deserves it.

It’s been almost two decades since I’ve written anything in FORTRAN. And to be honest, that something was a single program and I can’t quite remember what it was (I think it might have been an expert system I named “ Electric Monk“, but I can’t be certain). I’ve known...