Blog Posts

So one of the very common rants around the office here at the Eclipse Foundation is Denis (aka Webmaster) saying “ …there you guys go again with that Smalltalk this, Smalltalk that stuff! Arrggghhhhh!” He regularly mocks us that every lunch conversation will hit upon Smalltalk within 10 minutes, no...

I delivered a presentation for the Java Metroplex Users Group in Dallas, Texas last week. I think the talk went well; at least a few folks in the audience seemed to indicate that it went well and most people stayed around even after the pizza was gone. Almost everybody in...

Check out this IDE straw poll on tezaa. Although it is admittedly unscientific, I’m pretty amazed to see Eclipse out ahead of Visual Studio. Neat. P.S. Anyone wanna take a bet on how long it takes the Sun guys to astroturf this?

We are organizing another series of E clipse webinars. During Callisto, we ran a series of three webinars and got good response. This time we are featuring CDT, Mylar and Rich AJAX Platform (RAP). These webinars should be a good way to get a better understanding of these projects. Go...

SAP TechEd is going on this week in Las Vegas, so there seems to be more developer oriented news about SAP this week. Ryan Lowe is at SAP TechEd doing some presentations on RadRails. In Ryan’s blog he points out that SAP has introduced a new S AP Scripting Language...

Just came across an intersting blog entry from David Beers. He makes a point that a MS concept called Composite UI Application Block (CAB) is very similar to Eclipse RCP. However, for me his comment: What is funny is that RCP and CAB are obviously “big news” in their respective...

During this short talk and demonstration during the Eclipse Tailgate Party at Eclipse World 2006, Ihor Strutynskyj brought up an incredibly important point. Unfortunately, he didn’t make the point as explicitly as I had hoped (I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for him to say...

I read with a great deal of interest the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. It was particularly interesting to read the community feedback and realize that Microsoft has been consciously and conscientiously working with the open source community to develop this document. That’s an important step forward for them, as it...

Congratulations to Eclipse committer Mik Kersten for winning what looks like a very prestigious competition in Singapore. The competition was for PhD students to present business plans on the technology they are building as part of their thesis. As many might know, Mik is the leader of the way cool...

EclipseWorld has come and gone, and now it it’s time to start thinking about the next Eclipse event: Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE). We are expecting that this will be a great opportunity for networking and making new contacts within the Eclipse ecosystem, as there will be many visitors that haven’t...