Creating Micro-platforms
Eclipse has been very successful in developing a common platform for development tools integration. In fact, I believe one of...
How do I combine thee? Let me count the ways…
Over the past few months, I’ve heard a lot of folks talk about how many ways the ten Callisto projects...
Invitation to practitioners from Jon Udell
Jon Udell is a well respected blogger and analyst at InfoWorld. He does a lot of screencasts and is looking...
Announcing Eclipse Webinars
In the lead up to the Callisto release, we have decided to run a series of webinar s about some...
Stretch out and wait… or don’t
Good news for Eclipse plug-in/RCP developers who need to embed Swing/AWT components in SWT views on the Mac! Thanks to...
Does the body rule the mind, or does the mind rule the body?
In comments to a recent blog entry of mine, beche-de-mer (which I believe translates to “sea-slug”), asked if I could...
Eclipse Corner Spam
Another first for me! How very exciting. Somebody took the time to adapt some of their advertising materials to the...
Eclipse: too big?
I get this question every once in a while: why is Eclipse so big? Typically, the person asking the question...
Using Swing in an Eclipse RCP application
I’ve finally made it to JavaOne. It’s my first time here and I have to admit that I’m a little...
Hell Froze Over?
So we had a very interesting milestone at Eclipse yesterday. Our first ever committer from Sun committed code to CVS...
Eclipse related announcements at JavaOne
There have been a number of Eclipse related announcements this year at JavaOne. I thought it might be useful to...
Eclipse Shirts and the Thirsty Bear
It was a fun day yesterday at JavaOne. We ran out of Eclipse shirts around lunch time. Jackie Yao from...