Blog Posts

One of the things I really enjoy about traveling in Europe is the train system. They have a vibrant train system; something that we’re missing in North America. This week, I’ve been in Europe, attending both ECOOP and Java Forum Stuttgart. Unfortunately, the “Eclipse Bistro” I assembled for ECOOP didn’t...

Bjorn mentioned the Yoxos “ Eclipse on Demand” service in his blog a few days ago. The good people at Innoopract are proud of this service. For good reason. Today, I decided that I wanted a PHP development environment. I went to the “Eclipse on Demand” site. Here’s what it...

One of the things that I implemented with the Sudoku game was a disconnect between the model and the view. I provided a representation of a Sudoku game that knows nothing of user interface. It knows about cells and boxes and numbers; it also knows if any given cell is...

So far there have been 31,755 downloads of the Eclipse SDK 3.2 and 3,066 downloads of the Platform Runtime Binaries. This seems like a lot to me considering that it is the first weekend in July (first officialish weekend of summer in the northern hemisphere) and the start of a...

Basically, I am at best a casual Eclipse user, as coding is not generally part of my day-to-day job any longer. But I do think it’s pretty cool how easy it is to download and install all of the projects that shipped as part of the Callisto release. I just...

The Callisto projects are now replicated to a handful of mirrors and are ready for download. Click here to start the Callisto experience. For more excitement… see the video of Denis bringing the Callisto release to life.

Now that Callisto is out, it is your turn to talk. Tell people what you like and dislike, what are the cool new things, what is the easiest way to get things installed, what projects are you using? Write a blog posting, post something to EclipseZone or leave a comment...

I’ve been sitting on this idea for a while… I finally found a picture that I can legally use while browsing around last night. The idea is a homage to an old Bloom County cartoon by Berke Breathed. For fans of the original, Opus is back.

Forrester has just released their first Open Source Wave Report. I think it is great that Forrester is doing this type of open source research. It will help educate the mainstream IT decision maker on the health and maturity of the open source communities. It also provides legitimacy for those...

Beyond the hype/press around Callisto, it has been a good news week for RCP and Equinox. First, we have made available two new RCP case studies: PlumCanary Chirp and Refractions uDig. In the world of mashups and Google Maps, it is really amazing to see the next level of sophistication...