Blog Posts
RAP is hot
Last Wednesday, Anne (representing the EMO) announced the graduation review of the Rich Ajax Platform ( RAP) project and created Bug 204737 for comments. The graduation review itself will be held on October 3rd, but the community has already started voting. I don’t know if this is unheard of, but...
Open Financial Market Platform Workshop: Services for a Banking Platform
After carefully editing out the “ Oprah Incident“, I’ve posted a new podcast of my recent discussion with Stephan Wilzcek about the Open Financial Market Platform Workshop: Services for a Banking Platform workshop that he is co-hosting at Eclipse Summit Europe. The podcast should show up on EclipseLive (and the...
What are you doing on the line, Oprah?
Oprah Winfrey joined a call I was on today. It was very exciting. You should be excited too! I was recording a podcast today with Stephan Wilczek, discussing his upcoming workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe when my microphone cut out and Stephan was regaled with the soothing sound of Oprah...
Eclipse Summit Europe Workshops and Symposia
Eclipse Summit Europe is almost here and I’ve been thinking a lot about the symposia and workshops running on Tuesday, October 9th. More specifically, I’ve been thining about the results. These symposia and workshops offer a great opportunity for like-minded folks to get together and discuss what’s good, what’s bad...
Integrating Test-Driven Development in the Development Process Symposium
On Monday, I spoke with Christine Mitterbauer about the upcoming “ Integrating Test-Driven Development in the Development Process Symposium” at Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE). Christine, who is a senior software engineer with MicroDoc, is co-leading the symposium with George Mesesan, also from MicroDoc. In the podcast, Christine discusses some of...
Results for the Europa Marketing Launch
Last week at the Eclipse Marketing Symposium, I did a presentation on the results we achieved during the Europa launch. The purpose of the presentation was to share with the community the results of the different programs we put in place during the Europa launch. Measuring the success of a...
Diversity Rocks
I’m not sure if this is diversity at work or not, but have you been watching the Visual Editor Project’s ( VEP) Project’s ve-dev list lately? The project-that-could seems to be gathering steam. There’s not what I would call a huge amount of activity, but there seems to be a...
Migrating Podcasts from Resources
You’ll notice a change if you subscribe to the podcasts feed off the Eclipse Resources page. I’ve set up a redirect that will point you instead to the podcasts feed on Eclipse Live (which, I hope you will agree is a better place for podcasts anyway). Over the next few...
Introducing the EUPL
I was very intrigued to learn about the European Union Public License today. Having a government-drafted and supported open source license is breaking new ground as far as I know. I found in particularly interesting that they drafters selected the Eclipse Public License as one of the licenses they will...