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The winners of the JAX Innovation Awards were announced this week at the JAX and Eclipse Forum Europe conference. Of course it is great to see 3 out of the 5 winners were Eclipse based platforms. The bioeclipse platform looks really interesting and I think it reflects a trend for...

I learned an important lesson yesterday. Last night, I took a walk down Rue St. Denis in Paris and had a reasonably nice dinner at one of the many sandwich stands that litter the street. As I munched on my food, it occurred to me that I only had about...

I spoke this morning at Club Java in Paris. I’m on my way home from Eclipse Forum Europe and, of course, couldn’t pass up such a great opportunity to speak to a developer community (I’ve been speaking at a lot of Java User Group meetings lately). Vlad, who organized my...

With JavaOne coming up, I thought it would be appropriate to remember that Eclipse is much more than just Java. I thought it might interesting to map the Eclipse support of popular computer languages. Based on this ranking of computer languages, it looks like 15 out of the 20 languages...

We had an incredible jump in the number of student proposals for Eclipse projects in Google’s Summer of Code. On Saturday, we had 12 proposals. Today we have 77! Many of the proposals are interesting. It seems that there is a disportionate number of people who are interested in providing...

Instantiations has been a long time player in the Eclipse ecosystem with their popular WindowBuilder product. Therefore, I was thrilled when the announced their new RCP Developer product. To help educate people on Eclipse RCP, Instantiations is sponsoring a webinar with the foks at Sys-con media. If you or someone...

I just noticed after a cursory review that six of the ten nominations for the JAX Innovation Award 2006 have something to do with Eclipse. Try as I might, I can’t figure out a reasonable way to put “Swing” in the title of this…

I’ve been working on a new RCP application over these past few weeks. The effort has pushed me to look at a few areas inside Eclipse that I haven’t previously explored. I rely heavily on calendar and task management software to manage my many different roles and responsibilities. Unfortunately, all...

Next week at JavaOne will be a busy week for the Eclipse community. If you are planning to attend the conference, I hope you can drop by the Eclipse booth. We will be demoing 9 different Eclipse projects, including BIRT, TPTP, VE, MTJ, Dali, ALF, WTP, JDT and RCP. We...

I, like many others, have enjoyed reading Ed Burnette‘s recent series on Sun joining Eclipse. Personally, I think it would be great to have Sun join Eclipse. It is obviously one of the questions I’ve been asked a lot since starting at Eclipse, and my answer has been the same...