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See, there’s been some big, big things, and some are bigger than others… It seems that the desire to obtain Eclipse-branded merchandise is heating up. Bug #125649 seems to demonstrate that there’s at least some interest out there in high-quality Eclipse logoware. As I mentioned a couple of days back...

I am giving a presentation next week at the Evans Data Developer Relations conference. The intent of my presentation is to talk about the successes Eclipse has had in building a strong vibrant community. To do so, I have detail some of the ‘best practices’ that I have observed in...

It’s always nice to hear about folks who come back to Eclipse. Problems with their previous IDE combined with a very positive experience with WebTools 1.0 has brought this blogger back.

It’s February so that means its election time in the Eclipse community. Each year, the committer community and the add-in provider community vote for their representatives on the Eclipse Board of Directors. The number of elected reps is calculated using a formula based on the number of strategic members. The...

I finally have had time to update the web site with all of the nominations for the Eclipse Awards. The deadline was last Friday and once again it is a proven fact that everyone (including myself) waits until the deadline before doing anything On Thursday and Friday I had close...

Every now and then, somebody asks a question about whether or not the Eclipse IDE supports Java 5. If you look at the 3.1.2 release notes, you’ll see that version 3.1.2 has been tested on Java 1.4.2 on variety of platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac OS, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX) as well...

With Bug# 125649, Chris has suggested that somebody out there should setup an “Eclipse Store” selling Eclipse-branded merchandise. I think he’s suggesting that the Eclipse Foundation should probably do something along these lines; I thought that there might be something in the rules that would prevent us from setting up...

I hope that everybody out there is planning to attend Waterfall2006!

I finally have a moment — and the picture thanks to John — to mention this truly comic moment in Beijing. As John Kellerman and I were doing our lightning tour of the Forbidden City, this class of girls came up and asked to get their picture taken with us...

Dana Gardner recently did a post on ‘ NetBeans maybe a hedge for ISVs…’. His post was based on a briefing he had with the NetBean’s folk. In the past, I have enjoyed a lot of Dana’s analysis but this post needs a bit of discussion. I think the general...