Blog Posts

Timothy O’Brien has written about his experiences using the Callisto release candidates. Congratulations to the Callisto team, it seems like you’ve make Timothy a happy user. I also think Timothy has captured the essence of the Eclipse community: It differs from other “open-source” communities in that it feels both more...

Phillip Su, a Microsoft Program Manager, has written a very interesting and frank blog about the challenges of shipping Vista. At the end he asks the question ‘Are Vista-scale software projects essentially uncontrollable by nature?’ I personally think the answer to the question is ‘no they are controllable’ and Callisto...

Beatriz Iaderoza and Grant Gayed have contributed this article to Eclipse Corner on how to use the new virtual tables and trees added with SWT 3.2.

One of the things that I really enjoy about my job is that I continue to be surprised/impressed by where Eclipse is being used. For example, this morning on CNET I learn ‘Cisco buys communication software development tools’. This for obvious reasons caught my eye, so I looked into the...

A key reason for undertaking the Callisto release was to make it easier for individuals and organizations, like ISVs and enterprises, to adopt and integrate different Eclipse projects into their applications and projects. Therefore, we would like to highlight what people are doing with the projects that are included in...

I’ve had to set aside the Sudoku stuff for a couple of days while I did some real work. But, George Koch has been keeping busy. George sent me a Sudoku puzzle builder that he’s been working on; he’d managed to make it work with my application. His algorithm is...

I am starting to prepare the press release of Callisto. By all accounts Callisto is going to be a big release and a great accomplishment for the Eclipse community. Some of the stats I have collected include: Number of commiters: 262 Number of projects: 10 Number of organizations contributing commiters...

I’ve been meaning to blog on this for what feels like forever. I’m glad to finally have a moment to write this up. Back on April 21st, I was one of a number of presenters at an event here in Ottawa put together by the Ottawa Centre for Research and...

It is nice to see Eclipse is once again recognized in the SD Times 100. This year we were named in the Influencers and Rich Client Category and won the Tools and Environments category. Next year I want to win in the Rich Client category too. It is also great...

I managed to speed up my puzzle generation algorithm by a few orders of magnitude. In the process, I got a free solver out of it. The Sudoku game is coming along quite nicely; not bad for about three days worth of actual effort. We’ve also wrapped up the plug-in...