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Unlike my rather tongue-and-cheek open letter to Jonathan Schwartz, Geir Magnusson has penned a much more serious open letter about Sun’s restrictions to the JCK. It will be interesting to see how Sun responds but it certainly seems like Sun is not being fair or open. When Sun announced they...

Don’t forget to vote for your favourite Eclipse-based technologies in the latest run of the JDJ Readers’ Choice Awards.

ESC is always an interesting event for me; the embedded market is so different from enterprise application development. I think the biggest difference is the diversity and raw number of vendors. Hundreds of these vendors selling boards, processors, memory, rtos, compilers, debuggers, tools, etc. The end users are building airplanes...

Ian announced the availability of Eclipse Live last week. The first big event on Eclipse Live is a webinar by the Device Software Development Platform ( DSDP) Project titled “ The DSDP Target Management Project” on April 12, 2007. Here’s the abstract: “The Target Management project provides a framework, widgets...

I’ve been watching the GPLv3 process since its inception, and I have to admit that I am getting rather disappointed with some of the dialogue surrounding it. At the risk of stating the obvious, the FSF is completely within its rights to change the GPL, and they deserve high praise...

The Embedded Systems Conference is starting today in San Jose. We have a booth and are talking to the press about the upcoming releases of CDT and DSDP. There is 26 Eclipse member companies exhibiting at ESC, so there is a lot of Eclipse oriented news coming out from different...

Something a bit off topic but a bit surreal. Yesterday I was in Chicago O’Hara airport, attempting to get some money from a Harris Bank ATM. During my transaction, the ATM crashed and rebooted. During the reboot process I was amazed to see the DOS reboot process and then much...

I’m up to reason seven in the “ Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse” posted by Renaud Waldura (my discussion of the previous six reasons can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6). I have to admit that this is one of my favourite reasons. One aspect of...

Dr. Margarent-Anne (Peggy) Storey is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria. In this podcast, Peggy discusses GILD, the IDE based on Eclipse developed at the University of Victoria to introduce new students to software development. She also discusses the Zest project and introduces TagSEA, a “a...

I’m up to #6 in the “ Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse” posted by Renaud Waldura sometime in late 2002/early 2003. Since I’m crossing the halfway mark, I thought I mightlay out the previous reaons five for your review. Eclipse is Free Eclipse is a Platform Eclipse Has Momentum Eclipse...