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Day 1 at JavaOne was a lot of fun. The Eclipse booth was busy and we gave away a lot of T-shirts. In good fun, we even had Roumen Strobl from the NetBean’s team come by to collect his Eclipse T-shirt. I am sure he will wear it proudly back...

Well dropping by the Eclipse booth this afternoon really made my day. On the first day of the exhibit hall being open, the interest in the Eclipse Passport and the Eclipse t-shirts has been awesome. When I dropped by there was a line of at least twenty people there waiting...

Next week is going to be pretty busy. Eclipse 3.1 will be released. Don’t forget to sign-up for the Million Download Challenge. Ed Burnette has started a pool on when 3.1 will be declared. I’ll predict June 27. JavaOne is shaping up to be very busy. I will be spending...

Companies are starting to roll out their JavaOne announcements. It is great to see companies like JBoss and Borland highlight their Eclipse strategies. I was also pleasantly surprise to see e-Bay announce an open source initaitive, including an Eclipse plug-in. Next week, I know more companies are making some pretty...

Next Monday we are going to issue 3 press releases at JavaOne: 1)Release 1 will discuss the launch of 3.1 and the other project release, such as Web Tools, TPTP, etc., 2) Release 2 will highlight Eclipse RCP and 3) Release 3 will announce the 100th organization to join Eclipse...

Eclipse will be giving away Eclipse t-shirts at JavaOne. All thanks to the cooperation and sponsorship of 12 Eclipse member companies: Actuate, Agitar, BEA, Catalyst/Openmake, Compuware, Datamirror, Enerjy, Exadel, JBoss, M7, Parasoft and Sybase. As with all good things in life, nothing is completely free. To receive a t-shirt, all...

As a JavaOne exhibitor, Eclipse received a number of free 1 day passes to the exhibit hall. Let me know if you are interested in using one of these passes. I will need to mail them to you, so e-mail (ian skerrett at eclipse dot org) me your mailing address...

About two weeks ago, I suggested we do something to celebrate once Eclipse 3.1 reaches the million download mark. Kim Horne came up with a great idea that allows all Eclipse enthusiasts to participate and help the broader community. Her idea is to have willing participants donate volunteer time or...

Hot on the heels of my last post comes some very exciting news about the use of Eclipse in the Rich Internet Application (RIA) space. In my last post I talked about how James Governor‘s post on RCP showed that he really understands some of the potential of the Eclipse...

Macromedia has just announced that they are joining Eclipse and building their next generation tools based on Eclipse. This is very cool and it seems others agree.