Something a bit off topic but a bit surreal. Yesterday I was in Chicago O’Hara airport, attempting to get some money from a Harris Bank ATM. During my transaction, the ATM crashed and rebooted. During the reboot process I was amazed to see the DOS reboot process and then much...
I’m up to reason seven in the “ Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse” posted by Renaud Waldura (my discussion of the previous six reasons can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6). I have to admit that this is one of my favourite reasons. One aspect of...
Dr. Margarent-Anne (Peggy) Storey is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Victoria. In this podcast, Peggy discusses GILD, the IDE based on Eclipse developed at the University of Victoria to introduce new students to software development. She also discusses the Zest project and introduces TagSEA, a “a...
I’m up to #6 in the “ Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse” posted by Renaud Waldura sometime in late 2002/early 2003. Since I’m crossing the halfway mark, I thought I mightlay out the previous reaons five for your review. Eclipse is Free Eclipse is a Platform Eclipse Has Momentum Eclipse...
We have finally launched a beta of Eclipse Live. The idea of Eclipse Live is to 1) provide a single source for all the multi-media content related to Eclipse, ie podcasts, webinars, screencams, etc. and 2) provide a way for people to identify the great content and share their feedback...
In this podcast recorded at EclipseCon 2007, Mik Kersten discusses how a bout with repetitive strain injury ( RSI) motivated the creation of Mylar. He also provides some insight into how Mylar was/is built and integration of Mylar with Java ( JDT) and other languages. For those of you who...
I love how I continue to discover new things in Eclipse. A few days ago, I stumbled upon “Show Logical Structure” . This is a feature that has been around since the 3.1 days (I believe it was introduced with 3.1M4). It turns the “Variables” view (normally part of the...
We need help with the Google Summer of Code. Desperately. We have almost 100 proposals submitted and we’re desperately short on mentors. If you’re interested in being a Google Summer of Code Eclipse mentor, please let me know (wayne at eclipse dot org). What does being a mentor require? It...
I just posted a new podcast. In this podcast, Benjamin Pasero, technical lead on the RSSOwl 1.0 project and self-described “significant contributor” to the RSSOwl 2.0 project discusses—among other things—the decision to adopt Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) as a basis for the new version. This was recorded at the...
I spoke with Bob Goodman, Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) Project Lead, at EclipseCon about the ATF project. During this conversation, Bob told me about all the great features alredy available in ATF and spent some time looking into the future. You can find the podcast here, or pick up the...