Blog Posts

Today, I spend some quality time getting friendly with DocBook and CSS. More specifically, I spent time tuning an XSL stylesheet to customize the way that Eclipse Corner DocBook-structured documents are rendered, and a CSS to customize the way that they’re displayed. In the grand scheme of things, I rate...

Nice to see Ingres announcing a developer kit for Eclipse developers and providing some tight integration with the Data Tools Platform. The DTP project just announced their 1.0 release and it looks like they are getting some nice uptake. Ingres is also going to be a Gold Sponsor at EclipseCon...

The guys at EclipseZone (Alex and Daniel) are going a great series of interviews with some of the different Eclipse Awards nominees. I really enjoy reading each interview; if you haven’t seen them check them out. Also don’t forget to vote for you favourite nominee, deadline is February 16, 2007...

Voting for the 2007 Eclipse Board of Directors positions is now open! There are many wonderful candidates for the positions, so please make sure to take the time to vote if you are a committer or add-in provider member. If you believe that you are entitled to vote and have...

We’ve decided to change things a bit this year with respect to BoF sessions at EclipseCon. In past years, we’ve arranged BoFs on-the-fly while at the conference. Your feedback has let us know that this isn’t what you might call “totally optimal”. Anyway… this year, we’re scheduling them in advance...

Today, we posted “ Unleashing the Power of Refactoring” by Eclipse JDT committer Tobias Widmer. In this article, Tobias sheds light on the services offered by the Eclipse Java Development Tools ( JDT) and the Refactoring Language Toolkit ( LTK) to support automated Java refactorings, explains how these services are...

About 2 years ago NetBeans Evangelist Tim Boudreau did a blog post that lambasted Eclipse. It was so bad, and inaccurate, that he had to take it down; must have been bad day. It seems like Tim has had another bad day, as evident in a response to a blog...

You may have noticed that my last couple of posts introduced some podcasts. We’ve gotten feedback from parts of the community that podcasts are a useful medium for disseminating information, so it’s a natural thing for me to start doing. I thought that I’d get my feet wet by doing...

Earlier today, I spoke with Rich Gronback about the upcoming EclipseCon 2007 conference. Listen to the Podcast here. Richard is the Programme Committee Chair for EclipseCon 2007, PMC Lead for the Modeling Project, and Project Lead for the Graphical Modeling Framework ( GMF) Project.

In an interesting demonstration of the dangers of (what appears to be) auto-generating blog content, the site Modeling Agencies has picked up references to EclipseCon 2007. We do, of course, love to see viral marketing for EclipseCon and heartily encourage regular readers of this particular site to join us at...