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My lovely and much younger sister works as a paralegal in a Dallas law office when she’s not running triathalons. So one day last week I guess she was bored and typed our not-very-common surname into the US PTO database and found this piece of hilarity. I genuinely had no...

The plans are starting to come together for our tailgate party at Eclipse World. The party will be on Sept. 6, starting at 8:00pm. Besides the food and drink, we also hope to encourage people to network with other Eclipse users and Eclipse technical community leaders. We also plan to...

There seems to be a flury of examples of Eclipse Equinox and OSGi being used in different applications. For example, the post on EclipseZone about IBM Websphere 6.1 using Equinox, zx post of Apache Tuscany and a really informative post from murphee’s rant. So I thought I would take this...

I just reviewed the programme for the iX conference that’s coming up in November 2006. There’s a lot of Eclipse activity at the conference, including: Kai Tödter is holding a tutorial on Eclipse Rich Client Platform Richard Schwaninger is presenting Milchkuh Eclipse (Migrating Legacy Applications to Eclipse) Kevin Parker is...

I think it is really sad to see Sun’s latest marketing campaign creating FUD about Borland. Sun is supposively the steward of the Java community but here they go attacking a long-term supporter and partner of Java. With friends like this, who needs enemies? It is this type of marketing...

Ben Walding has put together a page that contains all the icons contained in the Eclipse CVS repository. It’s a handy resource for finding just the right icon. They’re all released under the EPL, so you can actually reuse the icons (subject to the terms of the licence). See here...

This article illustrates how the EMFT OCL parser/interpreter technology adds to the value of EMF/JET code generation as a foundation for model-driven development (MDD). We will see, with fully functional examples, how a metamodel can be generated from an Ecore model without requiring any post-generation custom code, including complete implementations...

Chris took me to task after this posting, exposing an important part of the Eclipse Corner publishing process: if things seem to be stalled, poke me (either directly or with a bugzilla comment). Sometimes the process of getting an article published on Eclipse Corner is very time consuming. It all...

Over the last year, the Phoenix project has worked to improve the eclipse.org web site and I think we have made some substantial progress; remember the bad old days of frames :-). The next step is to make it easier for the average user to come to eclipse.org and find...

One of the great things about my job is that it doesn’t really matter where I actually physically work (at least part of the time). I took the opportunity yesterday to spend a few hours watching my kids at hockey camp. It was a little weird sitting in the freezing...