I came across two good blog post this morning that reminded me about the first principles of marketing and community building for an open source project. Adventures in Open Source makes the point that for an open source project to be successful to has to be ‘ extremely useful‘ and...
Evans Data has just released a new report that shows Eclipse adoption has increased 31% in India and 20% in Brazil over the last 6 months. The might explain why are download numbers continue to climb. I also hope it means good things for Eclipse Forum India. I would love...
Scheduling is hard. I have developed an incredibly deep respect for Richard Gronback. I guess I already had a lot of respect for him anyway, what with the Modeling Project and the GMF thing and all… Scheduling 33 BoFs is hard work. Scheduling 200 sessions must drive you to the...
Today I managed to schedule all but one of the proposed BoFs for EclipseCon 2007. As of about an hour ago, there were 33 proposals. The one that I didn’t schedule asked for a room on Sunday night; as of now, I don’t have any Sunday night rooms to book...
Today, I spend some quality time getting friendly with DocBook and CSS. More specifically, I spent time tuning an XSL stylesheet to customize the way that Eclipse Corner DocBook-structured documents are rendered, and a CSS to customize the way that they’re displayed. In the grand scheme of things, I rate...
Nice to see Ingres announcing a developer kit for Eclipse developers and providing some tight integration with the Data Tools Platform. The DTP project just announced their 1.0 release and it looks like they are getting some nice uptake. Ingres is also going to be a Gold Sponsor at EclipseCon...
The guys at EclipseZone (Alex and Daniel) are going a great series of interviews with some of the different Eclipse Awards nominees. I really enjoy reading each interview; if you haven’t seen them check them out. Also don’t forget to vote for you favourite nominee, deadline is February 16, 2007...
Voting for the 2007 Eclipse Board of Directors positions is now open! There are many wonderful candidates for the positions, so please make sure to take the time to vote if you are a committer or add-in provider member. If you believe that you are entitled to vote and have...
We’ve decided to change things a bit this year with respect to BoF sessions at EclipseCon. In past years, we’ve arranged BoFs on-the-fly while at the conference. Your feedback has let us know that this isn’t what you might call “totally optimal”. Anyway… this year, we’re scheduling them in advance...
Today, we posted “ Unleashing the Power of Refactoring” by Eclipse JDT committer Tobias Widmer. In this article, Tobias sheds light on the services offered by the Eclipse Java Development Tools ( JDT) and the Refactoring Language Toolkit ( LTK) to support automated Java refactorings, explains how these services are...