It is a big deal to me when we get a cover story in a magazine. Therefore, I was thrilled to find out that Dr Dobb’s has Eclipse Europa : Eureka! as its August cover. Congratulations to the Eclipse community; another great recognition for the release.
I reported a little while ago about my experiences with Ubuntu. It’s time for a quick update. The short version is that I like it. I like the way that it looks and feel. I even like the OpenOffice software, though it does bizarre things once in a while (need...
The deadline for the OS Summit Asia Call for Papers is next Friday, July 13. If you are thinking of submitting a proposal, now is the time to do it. I also want to encourage people in China, Japan, Korea and greater Asia to submit papers. An important goal of...
Eclipse Blogs does have an RSS feed. Unfortunately it’s hidden. I’ll try to resolve this next week by adding a fancy icons somewhere on the template (somehow, I managed to assume ownership of this sort of thing). In the meantime, tack “/feed” on the end of the URL for the...
The coverage of the Europa release has been great. In case you missed it, I thought I would share some of my highlights. Analyst Coverage Cote from Redmonk probably had the best coverage by an analyst. Cote really gets this stuff. Joe Niski from Burton also did a nice overview...
At least one confused member of the Eclipse community spent an uncomfortable night camping outside the Eclipse Foundation offices in hopes of being the first to get a copy of the new fangled Eclipse packages. Unfortunately, this camper didn’t realise that we never use the front door, and it wasn’t...
Today, we published Miguel Garcia’s article, “ How to process OCL Abstract Syntax Trees“, on Eclipse Corner. The abstract states: The Model Development Tools Object Constraint Language (MDT OCL) project provides the building blocks for Model-Driven tools to weave OCL declarative specifications into software artifacts. We showcase some of these...
I’m off to Germany next week for a fun-filled week of Eclipse-based excitement. With the arrival of Europa this week, next week is sure to be a great time to out with the people. The first event is a visit on Tuesday evening to the Java User Group Cologne where...