Blog Posts

I do all of my editing of the pages on eclipse.org (including editing articles for Eclipse Corner) using Eclipse Web Tools. I personally don’t mind looking at HTML, and the HTML editor provided with Web Tools is top-notch (a lot of the content on eclipse.org is represented in XML, which...

Check this out. The publishers of EclipseMagazin in Germany have created a 20,000 euro award program for “ Outstanding European Contributions on Java and Eclipse“. Very exciting!

The Medical Banking Project just announced they have selected Eclipse as the platform for their reference implementation. I think it is great to see vertical oriented organizations adopting Eclipse. In my mind vertical frameworks is an important part of the future of open source software and Eclipse.

Last night, I posted Anthony Hunter’s new “ The Eclipse Tabbed Properties View” article on Eclipse Corner. In this article, Anthony describes the API for building (oddly enough) tabbed properties views. The article gives several examples of uses of tabbed properties, including the following (from the Eclipse GMF 1.0M4): A...

I have the lucky task of being the sales guy for EclipseCon. This means I get to talk to all the companies that want to exhibit at EclipseCon. This year one company in particular, Business Objects (BO), is being a huge sponsor of EclipseCon. Business Objects is new to the...

I blogged yesterday about BostonEDGE. But EDGE is not the first Eclipse group that I’ve heard of; there are others, including an Eclipse SIG that’s part of the Stuttgart Java User Group. They have regular meetings and invite great speakers including the foundation’s own Bjorn Freeman-Benson and other luminaries from...

Siobhan O’Mahoney at the Harvard Business School has written a case study on IBM’s strategy and process for creating Eclipse. If any of you are interested in the history of Eclipse, this makes for an interesting read. Also, kind of cool that Harvard is using Eclipse as an example for...

It just occurred to me that one of the biggest inhibitors for folks getting together to talk about Eclipse has got to be the acronym. Who wants to go to an EUG (Eclipse Users Group)? It sounds a little like one of the grunts Tim Allen does in his stand...

This week both Donald and I are at the Open Source Business Conference ( OSBC West). Steve O’Grady already blogged on his impressions of yesterday’s events. For those that have never been to an OSBC, it is a fairly unique show. There are basically equal numbers of lawyers, venture capitalists...

Yesterday was the deadline for the early bird registration price for EclispeCon. We now have 800 people registered. A great number since we still have over 4 weeks to go! Last year we sold out at 1000 attendees, so I can see us easily going pass that mark. I am...