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Forrester has just released their first Open Source Wave Report. I think it is great that Forrester is doing this type of open source research. It will help educate the mainstream IT decision maker on the health and maturity of the open source communities. It also provides legitimacy for those...

Beyond the hype/press around Callisto, it has been a good news week for RCP and Equinox. First, we have made available two new RCP case studies: PlumCanary Chirp and Refractions uDig. In the world of mashups and Google Maps, it is really amazing to see the next level of sophistication...

As many people have noticed we issued the Callisto press release this Monday. We have nice received coverage in most major English-language tech-oriented publication. Instead of listing them here, check out my del.icio.us Callisto tagroll. [Note for some reason I can not convince Blogger to allow me to embedd javascript...

In the second of our series of podcasts (the first being here), Dana Gardner talks with Bill Roth from BEA and Steve Heintz from Wind River about their experiences with Eclipse. The discussion revolves around the benefits BEA and Wind River have gained from using Eclipse and what the future...

Doug Schaffer likes to claim marketing types are on a ‘different plane of the universe’. Seth Godin has finally provided a great explanation for developers trying to understand marketers. My favorites include: #3 – Most marketers have no clue whatsoever what to do. So we do unoriginal things, or stall...

I don’t know if anybody else noticed this, but there is a black line in this now-famous picture of Steve Northover embracing the NetBeans girls at this year’s EclipseCon. I have to admit, that I initially found the line curious, but didn’t put too much thought into it. More recently...

The staff of the Eclipse Foundation are a little spread out. We have most of the people here in Ottawa, but Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Ward Cunningham and Anne Jacko are all in Portland, Skip McGaughey is in North Carolina and Ralph Mueller is in Germany. Since everyone is so spread out...

In response to my Friday entry, Jeroen asked about Eclipse application design; how do you architect an Eclipse application? It’s a good question. I tend to fall back on classic patterns. As a start, I separate my application into multiple layers, employing the well known model-view-controller pattern. Typically, I’ll separate...

The Server Side Java Symposium wrapped up in Barcelona today. I sat on a keynote panel this morning titled “ 2010: A Developer’s Odyssey”. The basic idea was for the panel members to muse about what the ideal development environment will look like in four years. There was a lot...

Probably very few people know this, but when I first heard of the idea of doing what has become known as Callisto, I hated the idea. In fact, I attempted an ultimately unsuccessful argument against it. There were various reasons for this, but chief amongst them was that I didn’t...