Blog Posts

I am in Portland this week for OSCON. Eclipse has a booth in the .org pavilion and I also hope to catch a few sessions. This afternoon I hope to sit in on Doc Searls tutorial ‘Open Source Marketing: How to Market to People Who Hate Marketing’. I am looking...

The final is a series of 3 podcast is now available. In this podcast Dana Garner speaks with two smaller ISVs, Genuitec and Lombardi and talks about how they benefit from using Eclipse. Podcast 1: Wall Street Analyst Talks about the Effect of Eclipse Podcast 2: The Benefits of Eclipse...

I decided to update the screen cam that demonstrates how to download and install Eclipse (I made the old one before the Eclipse 3.2 release). The new version replaces the old version, so the old link still works. I’ve decided to tinker with the screen size a little with this...

In my role, I spend quite a bit of time following the various companies and products building on top of the Eclipse platform. That could probably become a full-time job if I let it. There is an enormous amount of energy in the Eclipse ecosystem. But every once in a...

Sometimes I wonder if I was German in a previous life. I certainly spend a lot of time there, and I always enjoy myself. Seriously, any country that firmly believes that beer and business mix is my kind of place. Two weeks ago I was lucky enough to be in...

I was never happy with how tightly coupled my image viewer is to the resources API. It seems to me that an image viewer is a pretty handy, general-purpose thing. The initial implementation can display images contained in files. But images come from other places. Items in an auction have...

OK, I am a sucker for a magazine that does a cover story on Eclipse. Last night I was in my neighbourhood magazine shop, looking through some of the computer magazines. I pulled out a magazine called PHP Architect and what do I find an Eclipse cover story. Also a...

As a general rule, I don’t like to have too much Java code in Java ServerPages (JSP) files. In fact, I’d prefer to have no Java code at all in a JSP. I have two basic reasons (and a collection of less basic reasons)… First, Java code in a JSP...

This week IBM announced a new version of Lotus Notes for Linux. Steve Hamm at Business Week did a great write-up that heaps lots of praise on Eclipse. I especially like the quote: Thanks to Eclipse, IBM was able to produce the Linux version of Notes in just one year–and...

One of the things I really enjoy about traveling in Europe is the train system. They have a vibrant train system; something that we’re missing in North America. This week, I’ve been in Europe, attending both ECOOP and Java Forum Stuttgart. Unfortunately, the “Eclipse Bistro” I assembled for ECOOP didn’t...