Eclipse Summit Europe
Registration is now open for Eclipse Summit Europe. There is a limit of 400 attendees, so register now so you won’t be disappointed and save a few Euros on the early registration fees.
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Registration for Eclipse Summit Europe Opens!
The second annual Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) takes place October 9-11, 2007 at Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, which is in the Stuttgart region of Germany. ESE is the Eclipse Foundation’s premier event designed to create opportunities for the European Eclipse community to explore, share, and collaborate on the latest...
Community Trademarks
There’s been a bit of conversation going on between Savio Rodrigues and Angry Bill Burke about the value of trademarks this week. This is rather timely, given the recent update to the Eclipse Foundation Trademark Guidelines and the parallel conversation about “ CDT for Windows” going on between Ian Skerrett...
PHP Development Tools Awesomeness
The PHP Development Tools ( PDT) Project has been hard at work producing the next version of some excellent tools for building PHP applications. I have been using the 1.0M1 release (the PDT downloads page points to their update site) for a few weeks now and am really impressed. Here’s...
Interpreted Java
It’s long past time to continue on a path I started down some time ago. About four years ago, Renaud Waldura posted a blog entry titled “Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse”. A few months back, I started reviewing the ten reasons to see what’s changed. My previous entries are here...
Confusion
Apparently, there is some confusion about the name of the “ Mylyn” project. Let me try and clear it up. This is “Our Lynn”, the Eclipse Foundation’s Marketing Events Manager. This is “Mylyn”, the Task-Focused UI for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. Any questions?
Not So Fast!
IANAL, not even on TV. I noticed an article in InformationWeek that asserts that the Eclipse Public License ( EPL) and GPLv3 are compatible. Although I think that it would be a good thing if it was easier for the two communities to share and re-use code, the article is...
One more reason to love Mylyn
I spoke last Thursday at the Java Forum Stuttgart. This is a show that I really enjoy attending; the organization is great, the people are very nice, and Stuttgart is a nice city. I delivered two talks: one on Eclipse RCP and one on Mylyn. The RCP talk went well...
Making Eclipse the Linux IDE
Last week, LinuxWatch and eWeek published an article ‘ Linux developers considering move to Eclipse‘. The article summarizes a breakout session at the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. The result of the session was: [….], it was decided to start making Eclipse, the open-source development platform, the Visual Studio for...
Jalecedo
Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of hosting in Ottawa Kazumi Ohgata and Motoki Mori from NEC Soft in Japan. NEC Soft’s VALWAY Technology Center is developing an interesting tool to make it easier to build RCP applications, called Jalcedo. During our meeting we discussed the market for RCP tools...