Blog Posts

    Looking for a good mirror in China

    by Anonymous

    As a follow-up to my post about China being our #1 country for downloads, Denis made the point that we have only one mirror in China; thanks to Actuate. Given, we are getting ready for the Europa release, this would be a great time to add some mirrors in China...

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    SWT/Swing Integration

    by Wayne Beaton

    Today we published an article on Eclipse Corner titled, “SWT/Swing Integration”. This is a pretty important topic that is of great interest to a lot of folks. The article was written by Gordon Hirsch, based on some real world experience with the SWT_AWT bridge component (which allows you to host...

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    Ranking Industry Analyst Bloggers

    by Anonymous

    Part of my job at the Eclipse Foundation is to work with the different industry analyst in our space. We do a lot of work with the guys at Redmonk and I have always been impressed with their knowledge of everything. Therefore, I was not surprised to see them at...

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    China is now #1 in Eclipse downloads

    by Anonymous

    Thanks to Donald we are harvesting some pretty interesting information from our download stats. Over the last 6 months we have noticed a gradual uptake in downloads from China. I was expecting that by the end of 2007 China would surpass the USA as being the number one country. Well...

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    Screencams, IDEs, Instructions, and Ruby

    by Wayne Beaton

    I’ve been spending far too much time wrestling with Camtasia lately (it has a frustrating habit of completely screwing up my files). I’ve been putting together a collection of screencam demonstrations to accompany the Europa release. I did spend a little effort looking into using Wink to record my demonstrations...

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    Talking to the press about Europa

    by Anonymous

    We are getting ready for the launch of Europa. Some of the reporters we are talking to have expressed an interest in talking to developers who are planning to use some of the projects in Europa. Most of the ‘interviews’ will be done via e-mail. If you are interest in...

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    Linux Summit

    by Mike Milinkovich

    Earlier this week I was on the “How Do We Get More Apps on Linux?” panel at the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit. I certainly have to agree with Danese Coopers‘s comments about being on panels. The more questions from the audience, the better IMHO. As she alludes to, I personally...

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    How big is the Europa release?

    by Anonymous

    In the process of collecting stats for the Europa release I was referred to a really cool web site called Ohloh.net. It essentially collects stats on open source projects. Most of the 21 projects in Europa, last count 16 of the 21, are listed on Ohloh so I built a...

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    Help Promote Europa Part 2: Write a Review; Win a Shirt

    by Anonymous

    Thanks to everyone that has linked to the Europa graphic. It is helpful to getting the word out. People seem to like the Eclipse shirts, so I thought it might be a good idea to give people another opportunity to win a shirt. Hence, part 2 of requesting your help...

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    Eclipse Summer School in Poland

    by Anonymous

    Via this blog, it is nice to see the local Eclipse community in Poland putting on an Eclipse Summer School. I am noticing more and more of these type of locally run Eclipse events. Nice to see.

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