Blog Posts

I’ve been using Mylar for about two weeks and I’m still really impressed. I have been doing some Java development these past weeks, but most of my work has involved editing PHP files and triaging Eclipse Corner Articles bugzilla entries. I’ve been doing it all with Mylar. The first thing...

Cote from Redmonk has written an interesting article about ALM tools for Agile programming. He points out that Mylar looks like an interesting platform for integrating tools, people and processes. The last couple of weeks I’ve been spending a fair bit of time talking to people about Mylar and listening...

Well at least he got honourable mentioned as one of the top system admins out over 5000 nominees. Congratulations to Denis. He certainly deserves it.

It’s been almost two decades since I’ve written anything in FORTRAN. And to be honest, that something was a single program and I can’t quite remember what it was (I think it might have been an expert system I named “ Electric Monk“, but I can’t be certain). I’ve known...

An important success of the Eclipse ecosystem is the diversity of vendors that have created Eclipse-based products and/or Eclipse plug-ins that complement Eclipse-based products. This diversity has provides IT shops and end users a wide selection of options to address their development tool requirements. A challenge of this diversity is...

For kicks last night, I decided to see how well Apache Harmony could run Eclipse. The answer is “pretty well”. The Eclipse platform itself runs very well. I edited a bunch of files, manipulated a bunch of resources, dabbled a bit with some properties and preferences, and just generally kicked...

The Linux Distros Project just passed their creation review. I think this really shows the power and breadth of the Eclipse community. All of the major Linux distros, Novell/SuSe, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian, and Red Hat/Fedora are participating in this project. Their stated goal is to ‘Bring Eclipse technology to Liunx...

There’s no point in being subtle. You must try Mylar. Do it now. Today. I have to admit that I’ve been meaning to look at Mylar for a long time, but haven’t gotten much further than the demos. I finally took the time to load it in and start getting...

I have a soft spot in my heart for Borland. As with many people, Turbo Pascal was the first IDE I used and I even did some programming with Turbo Prolog. So it is great to see that Borland’s CodeGear has announced the release JBuilder 2007. Previously named Peleton, JBuilder...

We have three new webinars scheduled over the next couple of weeks. Coming up this week on Tuesday November 21, Building a Great GUI using Eclipse RCP features two Eclipse Platform committers: Kevin McGuire and Boris Bokowksi. Go here to register. On December 14, another RCP webinar titled ‘ Packaging...