Blog Posts

In the second of our series of podcasts (the first being here), Dana Gardner talks with Bill Roth from BEA and Steve Heintz from Wind River about their experiences with Eclipse. The discussion revolves around the benefits BEA and Wind River have gained from using Eclipse and what the future...

Doug Schaffer likes to claim marketing types are on a ‘different plane of the universe’. Seth Godin has finally provided a great explanation for developers trying to understand marketers. My favorites include: #3 – Most marketers have no clue whatsoever what to do. So we do unoriginal things, or stall...

I don’t know if anybody else noticed this, but there is a black line in this now-famous picture of Steve Northover embracing the NetBeans girls at this year’s EclipseCon. I have to admit, that I initially found the line curious, but didn’t put too much thought into it. More recently...

The staff of the Eclipse Foundation are a little spread out. We have most of the people here in Ottawa, but Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Ward Cunningham and Anne Jacko are all in Portland, Skip McGaughey is in North Carolina and Ralph Mueller is in Germany. Since everyone is so spread out...

In response to my Friday entry, Jeroen asked about Eclipse application design; how do you architect an Eclipse application? It’s a good question. I tend to fall back on classic patterns. As a start, I separate my application into multiple layers, employing the well known model-view-controller pattern. Typically, I’ll separate...

The Server Side Java Symposium wrapped up in Barcelona today. I sat on a keynote panel this morning titled “ 2010: A Developer’s Odyssey”. The basic idea was for the panel members to muse about what the ideal development environment will look like in four years. There was a lot...

Probably very few people know this, but when I first heard of the idea of doing what has become known as Callisto, I hated the idea. In fact, I attempted an ultimately unsuccessful argument against it. There were various reasons for this, but chief amongst them was that I didn’t...

Motorola announced this morning that they have joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and has proposed a new project focused on tools for mobile Linux. This is to complement the initiative they announced last week around mobile Linux. We’ve been working towards this for some months now, and...

David Berlind has been providing some great coverage of Eclipse Higgins at the Harvard Identity Mashup conference. His first posting provides a nice introduction and a great demo via some screen shots. Well worth the read. This was followed up by a post today that features a Q&A with Mary...

I presented my talk on Eclipse Rich Client Platform today at The Server Side Java Symposium in Barcelona. The talk started well and I think it ended strong, but I feel like it dragged in the middle. I decided that, given that the audience expects heavy technical discussion at a...