Blog Posts

Eric Arseneau, a Lead Researcher at Sun Microsystems (and former Smalltalker), has offered to come in an show us a demonstration of the Sun SPOT Wireless Sensor devices on Wednesday morning next week ( October 4, 2006) at 10:00 am. Eric’s main area of research is in the Squawk VM...

During our recent webinar on Eclipse Rich Client Platform, one of the attendees asked this question: If we have some technical issues during RCP development work, where can we post our problems? The answer to this question depends on how you define “issues” and “problems”. If the problem you have...

The Gartner Open Source Conference is on this week in Phoenix and Mike Milinkovich was participating in a ‘ Mastermind Panel‘. Luckily Zack Urlocker of MySQL took great notes and posted them on his blog. I think it makes for an interesting read. One thing that really surprised me, and...

Today, we just completed a webinar on the Eclipse Rich AJAX Platform (RAP) project. If you were not able to attend but are interested in learning more about RAP, a recording can be found here. We have two more webinars coming up in October on CDT and Mylar. More information...

Jeff McAffer and I presented a webinar yesterday on Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Unfortunately, the playback was interrupted yesterday by a server crash that sent us into the Q&A session a lot sooner than we had expected (and cut off about half of the presentation). If you missed out yesterday...

We finally managed to synch up our schedules after a busy summer so that we could present John Arthorne with his award from the Callisto Great Bugs Competition. The competition was designed to encourage the community to provide great bug reports as part of the drive to the Callisto release...

October is turning out to be a good month for Eclipse events in Europe. The Eclipse Foundation is organizing the Eclipse Summit Europe in Germany. I believe there are still spots open, if you are interested in attending. There is also an Eclipse event on Paris, France on October 13...

So one of the very common rants around the office here at the Eclipse Foundation is Denis (aka Webmaster) saying “ …there you guys go again with that Smalltalk this, Smalltalk that stuff! Arrggghhhhh!” He regularly mocks us that every lunch conversation will hit upon Smalltalk within 10 minutes, no...

I delivered a presentation for the Java Metroplex Users Group in Dallas, Texas last week. I think the talk went well; at least a few folks in the audience seemed to indicate that it went well and most people stayed around even after the pizza was gone. Almost everybody in...

Check out this IDE straw poll on tezaa. Although it is admittedly unscientific, I’m pretty amazed to see Eclipse out ahead of Visual Studio. Neat. P.S. Anyone wanna take a bet on how long it takes the Sun guys to astroturf this?