Blog Posts

One of my bigger challenges is managing a workspace packed with many different projects. As an evangelist, I tend to spend a lot of my time experimenting with stuff and the result is a tonne of projects of various sizes. I do try to close the projects that I’m not...

I write software interatively and almost always top-down. As such , I tend to rely heavily on the refactoring tools provided in the Eclipse JDT. But I’ve really started to lean on the Quick Fix feature. When you write code from the top-down, you always start with a lot of...

I came across SWT Snippet192 today which shows some cool new features that are being added to Eclipse 3.2. I have a table in my application that I want to sort. Sorting is pretty easy to make work in table, but there’s one thing missing: the sort indicator. That is...

We have created some case studies on how organizations are using Eclipse RCP. The intention is to provide some insight into how these organizations have benefited from using RCP. We are lucky enough to have Alterpoint , NASA , RSS Solutions and SAS agree to provide the information for their...

I wrote a while back about life goal #129 and the resulting bug raised against my person. Frankly, the whole process has been very exciting for me, but–alas–we’re getting close to closing this bug.

I had an opportunity today to stop by the bookstore and pick up a copy of the new Eclipse Rich Client Platform by Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux. It occurred to me today as I was looking for the book that there are a lot of titles on there discussing...

I’ve finally managed to post the agenda for the Eclipse in Action day at JavaPolis in Antwerp, Belgium, hosted by the Belgian Java Users Group (BeJUG). The Eclipse Foundation is hosting a Plug-in Bazaar on December 12th, and then Eclipse in Action day on December 13th. At this point, we...

I’m in Miami today. It’s very nice here, though the locals have informed me that “it’s winter”. Thus far, I have resisted an urge to let them know that they don’t know cold. On the flight to Miami, I wanted to work on the EBay RCP application that I’ve been...

Yesterday I was on a panel at the Open Source Business Conference with Eben Moglen , Diane Peters and Jim Harvie . The title of the session was “ GPL 3.0: Directions, Implications, Casualties “, but what it was really about was providing a venue for the Free Software Foundation...

There comes a time in the life of every open source community when they know they’ve made it…that the work they are doing is fundamentally changing the industry and impacting how people look at the development landscape. So when is that moment? Is it when it hits 50 million downloads...