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I attended the Genuitec Reception last night at EclipseCon where they unveiled and demonstrated the integration of Matisse with their MyEclipse product. It’s a pretty cool addition to their product. Tim Boudreau, NetBeans evangelist, was in attendance and even spoke about Sun’s reaction to the integration (they were initially shocked/surprised...

I only managed to catch a few minutes of the Halo Challenge yesterday at EclipseCon. When I left, Doug was taking on seven challengers and was beating them handily (all the while yelling, “I’m in the bunker, no… the other … Continue reading →

Janet, Bjorn, and I made a poster describing the Eclipse legal process. It’s pretty complex. Janet printed up a 3’x4′ poster for the exhibit hall at EclipseCon. It looks a lot cooler in “freakin’ huge” size…

Yesterday, I spoke with dozens of folks doing great things with Eclipse technology. One pretty common theme–one that I’ve seen repeated in far too many places–is hesitation to report bugs. Everybody gives a different reason for not reporting bugs. Some simply don’t know how. Some figure that their bugs will...

Kim tells me that she added a little something special to today’s Eclipse integration build . The splash screen features none other than SWT’s own Steve Northover posing with the nice models that NetBeans is sponsoring for the week (or the last couple of days anyway). See for yourself… it’s...

A number of people have asked me how the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards were selected. The Individual awards were voted on by the community. The Technology awards were selected by a panel of judges . The judges used three criteria for selected the winners were: Usability and intuitiveness...

Last year for the Eclipse Community Project Spot Light panel, we collected questions from the community to ask the PMC leaders. If you would like to provide us with a question, please do one of the following: Add it as a comment to the talk. Send me an email at...

So here are my personal EclipseCon 2006 highlights so far: The Sun team promoting NetBeans out front. Hilarious! I’m proud to say that I’ve got my full allotment of NetBeans kit: one CD and one bottle of water. Joel Spolsky’s keynote. It’s been a long time since I’ve laughed as...

Congratulations to the winners of the Eclipse Awards. The winners were announced during a reception this evening at EclipseCon. I hope someone else will post some pictures of the event. The winners are: Top Ambassador: Ed Burnette Top Contributor: Linda Watson Top Committer: Alain Magloire Best Open Source RCP Application...

I suggested earlier that I hadn’t yet seen any girls with love in their eyes or flowers in their hair. It turns out, I just missed ’em (okay, so there were no flowers and more of a vacuous look, but I’ll take it).