Blog Posts

I’ve had to set aside the Sudoku stuff for a couple of days while I did some real work. But, George Koch has been keeping busy. George sent me a Sudoku puzzle builder that he’s been working on; he’d managed to make it work with my application. His algorithm is...

I am starting to prepare the press release of Callisto. By all accounts Callisto is going to be a big release and a great accomplishment for the Eclipse community. Some of the stats I have collected include: Number of commiters: 262 Number of projects: 10 Number of organizations contributing commiters...

I’ve been meaning to blog on this for what feels like forever. I’m glad to finally have a moment to write this up. Back on April 21st, I was one of a number of presenters at an event here in Ottawa put together by the Ottawa Centre for Research and...

It is nice to see Eclipse is once again recognized in the SD Times 100. This year we were named in the Influencers and Rich Client Category and won the Tools and Environments category. Next year I want to win in the Rich Client category too. It is also great...

I managed to speed up my puzzle generation algorithm by a few orders of magnitude. In the process, I got a free solver out of it. The Sudoku game is coming along quite nicely; not bad for about three days worth of actual effort. We’ve also wrapped up the plug-in...

There are a number of Eclipse related webinars that I wanted to point out. We are getting really good response to these webinars, so I hope to do more throughout the summer. We just finished running a webinar with BZ Media called ‘Creating Eclipse Plug-ings’. Over 300 people attended and...

Cliff Liang has translated “ A Shape Diagram Editor” into Chinese. You can read it here (assuming you can read Chinese).

It’s only every once in a while that I really get to geek out and use some of that computer science stuff I learned in university. Frankly, I quite enjoy these little opportunities (disturbingly, most of these opportunities have something to do with combinatorics and recurrence equations). Yesterday, I wrote...

At JavaOne, I met John Rizzo from JavaBlackBelt and he mentioned to me that they had an Eclipse RCP exam. JavaBlackBelt uses a community based approach for developing certification exams of various Java related technology. It looks like an interesting model for creating certifications. The Eclipse RCP exam is still...

Like Steve O’Grady, fishing for me has never been about just catching fish. In fact, if we do manage to catch fish, that’s just the icing on the cake. Enjoying the scenery and some good times are the primary motivations. And although the scenery where we were cannot compare with...