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I’ve created my first screen cam demonstration of Eclipse. It’s all so very exciting for me. Can you feel the excitement? This demo shows how you can use Eclipse together with JUnit to do top down development of Java code using a test first philosophy. Along the way, I make...

Last night, I posted Cliff Schmidt’s “ Open Source Licensing Explained” talk on the Eclipse Evangelism web site. This is the talk that Cliff delivered during the Eclipse in Motion Seminar series in San Diego, Dallas, Raleigh, and Atlanta. I imagine that this talk shares material with the tutorial Cliff...

“ Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs” by John Arthorne and Chris Laffra is one of my favourite books on Eclipse. I use it pretty much daily (at least I do when I’m wading into a part of Eclipse that I haven’t worked with yet). It’s true that some parts of some...

Last week at EclipseCon we presented the ‘Pillars of Eclipse’ at the members meeting and to the press. The goal was to provide a high level categorization and explanation of the different areas that the Eclipse community is currently engaged. I also wrote a Guest Column in SD Times that...

I’m gearing myself up for a lot of time on the road. I’ll be carrying the Eclipse banner to Linux World (Boston) next week where I’ll be talking about Eclipse RCP. I’ll be getting some help staffing the booth in the Expo from Eric Clayberg (Instantiations), John Graham (Sybase), and...

I recently came across two blog postings about Eclipse and Microsoft. The first talking about Eclipse3.1 running on the IKVM. The second being a bit more contraversial, by Keith Harrison-Broninski titled ‘ Eclipse and the end of the Microsoft monopoly‘. Of course it is always nice to see people recognize...

I presented a few slides during my short talk. I’ve uploaded them to the conference site and expect them to appear somewhere there. I’ve also posted them on the evangelism site. Due to obvious time constraints, there’s not a lot of material there. The slides are mostly scavenged from other...

So far, there’s three great bugs nominated by Eclipse developers (at least there are three at this point). I don’t imagine that one of them ( 132773) is going to get past the PMC (I’m a little distressed that it’s assigned to me), but two is a pretty good start...

In keeping with the Angelina Jolie theme established by Joel earlier in the week, I incorporated images of her and her beau in my short talk today. I tried to work in some Lynard Skynard, but could figure out how while keeping myself under the allowed nine minutes. My demonstration...

In case you were wondering who is attending EclipseCon, I pulled some numbers from the information we collected at registration time. Pretty obvious this is a serious technical conference; 75% of the attendees being developers, architects and development managers. JDT is the project used by most attendees but RCP and...