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    BZ Media IDE Stats

    by Anonymous

    BZ Media, the people that publish SD Times, does an annual Java survey of their readership. Alan Ziechick has published the results of the IDE and Java app server usage questions. Nice to see Eclipse continuing to command a huge lead with 69.6% of the respondents indicating they use Eclipse...

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    JavaOne Wrap-Up

    by Mike Milinkovich

    So Bjorn and I just finished our JavaOne talk on Eclipse Europa. Attendance was good, and we had a lot of great questions after the talk. Last night was the Eclipse party, and I got a chance to catch up with a lot of folks that I hadn’t seen in...

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    In Harmony with Eclipse

    by Anonymous

    One of the things we are doing this year at JavaOne is giving away CDs of Eclipse SDK 3.2.3 running on a milestone release of the Apache Harmony project. We ordered 1000 CDs but have already run out. Lots of people are interested in learning more about Harmony and how...

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    Why JavaFX Script and not JRuby?

    by Anonymous

    The news this week from JavaOne is that Sun has decided to create a new language called JavaFX Script. I am still shaking my head wondering why does the software industry need another scripting language? Also, what has happened to Sun’s support for JRuby? Before JavaOne, I was convinced Sun...

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    Duke, Duke, Duke

    by Wayne Beaton

    I arrived earlier today at JavaOne and I have to admit that I’m more confused than ever. Just what the heck is Duke anyway? He/it looks a lot like a tooth with a disturbing amount of decay below the gumline. I got a picture of me chatting briefly with Duke...

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    Scaring Children with Your User Interface

    by Wayne Beaton

    If you’ve found the “Colors and Fonts” page in the Eclipse Workspace Preferences, then you already know that you can customize Eclipse to look as awful as you’d like. Or maybe you went different route and changed the colors and fonts to better suit your personal tastes. Many aspects of...

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    Eclipse T-shirts at JavaOne

    by Anonymous

    It has become a tradition to give out Eclipse t-shirts at JavaOne and this year is no different. We are able to make this happen thanks to the sponsorship of 18 companies, including Actuate, Adobe, AvantSoft, BEA, Business Objects, CodeGear, Intel, IONA, Klocwork, Motorola, Oracle, Parasoft, Prosyst, SAP, DevZuz, Sybase...

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    Monday in Istanbul

    by Mike Milinkovich

    I’ve been on the road for the past week and a half in Germany and Turkey. Last week was Wiesbaden for Eclipse Forum Europe, plus meetings in Frankfurt and Karlsruhe. EFE is an “embedded” conference, in the sense that it is embedded inside JAX, one of the largest (the largest?)...

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    Most Important Open Source Applications of All Time

    by Anonymous

    eWeek has named their ‘ Most Important Open Source Applications of All Time‘. It is nice to see Eclipse named in this category. I especially like the description they have for Eclipse: It’s becoming harder and harder to find development tools that aren’t based on Eclipse Can’t disagree with that.

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    Podcast: Aaron Farr discusses Eclipse RCP

    by Wayne Beaton

    Aaron Farr is an Eclipse RCP expert who has worked on numerous Eclipse RCP applications for various organizations around the world. In this podcast, he discusses some of his experiences with Eclipse RCP. You can listen the podcast here. The podcast feed on the Eclipse Resources page has also been...

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