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I reviewed the nominations for the Eclipse Awards today and there seems to be only moderate activity. In fact, I only see eight nominations for top contributor. There’s a lot more contributors out there than that. Nominating somebody is easy: it’s just a bugzilla entry and there’s handy links to...

Kind of cool to see Sun publishing an Eclipse plug-in for GlassFish . Nice to also see them hooking into the new Web Tools 1.0 release and the Dali project . btw, I was pointed to the plug-in from this blog .

David Berlind is organizing a Mashup Camp and seems to be getting a lot of interest . David indicated to me that some people are interested in talking about IDE’s for building mashups. A project I would love to see started at Eclipse is one that focuses on frameworks and...

David Berlind is a respected journalist and probably my favourite blogger at ZDNet. He recently blogged that Eclipse is really on a roll in 2005 and into 2006 . But he also suggested that ‘Is it time for NetBeans to finally throw in the towel?’ Tim Bray , noted Sun...

BZ Media has just announced the new Eclipse Review magazine. It will be a print magazine that is available on a quarterly basis. I understand that the first edition will be available at EclispeCon. You can sign-up for a free subscription here .

Today, I’m going to indulge myself with a brief discussion of my New Year’s Day activities. As is my tradition, I participated in the annual Polar Bear Dip here in Ottawa. For those readers who have not been initiated into world of Polar Bear Dipping, it’s pretty simple: on the...

Happy New Year! Over the holidays I finally found someone that has created a blog editor on Eclipse RCP. Lokesh Shah is creating JBlogEditor . It is still a beta version so it still needs some work. For instance, I would love to have a WYSIWIG editor. However, I am...

A new Eclipse conference, Eclipse Forum Europe , has just been announced for May 8-10 in Wiesbaden, Germany. There is a call for papers ; deadline is January 20. They are also looking for exhibitors and sponsors. Germany has long been a hotbed for Eclipse, so this should be a...

We are going to launch an Eclipse seminar series in February and early March, visiting San Diego, Dallas, Raleigh/Durham and Atlanta. The purpose of the seminars is two fold: 1) educate technical decision makers in IT departments on the benefit of using Eclipse as a platform for enterprise development and...

I’m working my way through the list of questions posed during the Eclipse RCP webinar . One listener asked about a dozen questions (and I’m hoping to get to them all, really), including this one: When talking about the user working offline with the intelligence in the application – where...