Blog Posts

    Festival Seating

    by Wayne Beaton

    There will not be reserved seating and nobody will be turned away at the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe. That said, I’d like to give priority seating to those who have actual experiences to share (being as this is the focus of the workshop). I’d like to ask...

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    RCP Experience Workshop Format

    by Wayne Beaton

    I’ve updated the RCP Experience Workshop wiki page to include a section on format. The short version is that we’re going to ask 2-3 people to stand up in front of the crowd and present their experiences with RCP. Each person will get 20 minutes. I’ve asked the folks representing...

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    Getting started with Properties

    by Wayne Beaton

    Over the last few days, I’ve been communicating with a developer who was having trouble getting the Properties view to work with his view and objects. It turns out that the real problem was more a lack of understanding of the adapter framework. I came up with three progressive examples...

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    RCP Experience Workshop Wiki Page

    by Wayne Beaton

    I’ve created a page for the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe on the Eclipse Wiki. Right now, the page only contains a description of the workshop and a list of the names of folks who asked to attend. The list is made from my mail log, so I...

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    Napoli, Eclipse-IT, and Pompeii

    by Wayne Beaton

    Ralph and I attended the ECLIPSE-IT International Conference hosted by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Napoli Federico II this week in Naples, Italy. Ralph did a great presentation on building innovation networks. Mine was on one of my favourite topics: test-first development. Frankly, I’m not 100% happy...

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    Yes, We Do

    by Mike Milinkovich

    Philippe recently asked a question which I think deserves a clear answer: .. .is the EPL just a joke, that everybody can ignore? The answer is, of course, no. We take the Eclipse Public License very seriously. There have been numerous times when we at the Eclipse Foundation been involved...

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    Eclipse DemoCamps

    by Anonymous

    Bjorn’s recent blog titled “ Why Our Technology Is Not Enough” got me thinking that we need to encourage more face-to-face meetings of local Eclipse enthusiasts. Yes, we have the big conferences like Eclipse Summit Europe, Eclipse World, OS Summit Asia, EclipseCon, etc. but not everyone can go to those...

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    Is OS Summit Asia a new type of conference for China?

    by Anonymous

    This is the first year for OS Summit Asia and it seems we are blazing some new territory for developer conferences in China. Aaron Farr is one of the conference organizers, is located in Hong Kong and has written an interesting blog post about how OS Summit Asia is going...

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    Eclipse for Linux Developers

    by Anonymous

    SD Times just did a special report titled ‘ Can Linux Get a Lift from Eclipse‘. Hmm, not sure about the title but the report is pretty decent and the general conclusion is that Eclipse is ideally suited for cross platform development; native, hard core Linux developers will probably stay...

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    Eclipse at SAP TechEd

    by Anonymous

    SAP is holding their big developer conference this week in Las Vegas. Seems like SAP is showing off some cool new tools based on Eclipse. Jeff Nolan has an interesting recap of the executive keynote and the demo of SAP’s Composition Environment, which is based on Eclipse. Jeff also discussed...

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