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Congratulations to the winners of the Eclipse Awards. The winners were announced during a reception this evening at EclipseCon. I hope someone else will post some pictures of the event. The winners are: Top Ambassador: Ed Burnette Top Contributor: Linda Watson Top Committer: Alain Magloire Best Open Source RCP Application...

I suggested earlier that I hadn’t yet seen any girls with love in their eyes or flowers in their hair. It turns out, I just missed ’em (okay, so there were no flowers and more of a vacuous look, but I’ll take it).

The BoF sign up board has arrived and is in the Registration area. If you’d like to host a BoF, there are forms attached to the board for you to fill out (you only need to fill out the front of the form, the back is just the result of...

I’ve been in California for almost a whole day now, and I have yet to see a girl with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair… I spent my morning today dropping into the various tutorials to see how folks were doing and helping out where I could...

The news from EclipseCon is starting to come out here and here. We are planning to issue the Foundation press releases Tuesday morning, focusing on RCP, ALM and the PHP IDE. I also expect to see 15-20 press releases from companies announcing Eclipse related news; so expect to see lots...

I’m getting read to fly out to Santa Clara on Sunday for EclipseCon 2006. This will actually be my first EclipseCon. I never did get a chance to attend in my previous job, but now that I’m the Eclipse Evangelist, attending comes as part of the job. I’ve attended dozens...

Looks like some people are interested in meeting up for an informal blogging party. Chris, Al, Gunnar, Wayne, Martin, Andre are all in. Maybe Ed, and Kim will arrive real late . Anyone else is welcome to join us. I suggest we meet in the Hyatt lobby lounge, Sunday, 6:00pm...

Bjorn surprise me today when he announced that EclipseCon was heading towards a sell-out. I’ve always thought the big Santa Clara Convention Center, no problem…. Well it turns out we only have enough seats to feed between 1400-1500 people. The side effect is that if you were planning on registering...

Last week, I blogged about some work that I’m doing with Eclipse Monkey. I finally found a few minutes to wrap it all up into an RCP application. In doing so, I did have to refactor the Eclipse Monkey code a bit. These changes are focused primarily on extracting the...

Evan’s Data has release another IDE market survey from November 2005. This survey is free to download, so everyone can take a look. An interesting thing about this survey is that it includes more than just Java IDEs. Microsoft Visual Studio comes out on top, in terms of share, but...