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    Why does Eclipse Momentum Keep Going?

    by Anonymous

    Recently, there has been a indicators that Eclipse momentum continues to grow. Denis complaining that we continue to run out of bandwidth; Evans Data saying we are challenging Visual Studio and even the fact in October we had 800K download requests of the SDK. Given we already have dominate share...

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    Linux Journal Editors’ Choice 2006

    by Anonymous

    Linux Journal announced their Editors’ Choice 2006 and Eclipse won the award for Software Development Tool. Great to see Eclipse being recognized in this Journal and another great indication of Eclipse’s momentum in the Linux community. Congratulations to everyone!

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    Five Reasons to Love Mylar: Part Five

    by Wayne Beaton

    Mylar facilitates communication with other team members through the task repository. There’s a handy “Attach context” feature that appears on the task editor that lets you package up your task context and attach it to the task (bug) in the repository. The task context contains the information about the elements...

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    Eclipse Birthday Card Winners

    by Anonymous

    We have the winners! As part of our birthday celebrations, we are giving away Eclipse sweaters to 20 individuals who signed our birthday card. We had over 2400 people sign the card, so the 20 randomly selected individuals are…… Karol Kleibl Arockia Samy Dominik Najder Neo Wang Krystian Kowalski Paulo...

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    Five Reasons to Love Mylar: Part Four

    by Wayne Beaton

    Mylar hooks to external task repositories. The Mylar download site offers support for integrating with Bugzilla, JIRA, and Trac. There is a long talk proposal for EclipseCon that intends to discuss (among other topics) integration with XPlanner. I’ve been using the Bugzilla integration to triage Eclipse Corner Article submissions and...

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    Five Reasons to Love Mylar: Part Three

    by Wayne Beaton

    Mylar remembers what you were doing when you switch between tasks. This is pretty closely related to my second reason, but I think it deserves it’s own special spot. Not only does Mylar keep track of what you’re doing, it keeps track of it on a task-by-task basis. Here, for...

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    Eclipse Forum Europe 2007

    by Wayne Beaton

    Eclipse Forum Europe starts on April 23, 2007 at the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden, Germany. I really love this conference, so I’m going to be there. The call for papers ends on December 18th. Be sure to get your submission in. … Continue reading →

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    The Coming Eclipse of Visual Studio

    by Anonymous

    Some Monday mornings you just know it is going to be a great week. This morning in my e-mail I find a Google alert with the title ‘ The Coming Eclipse of Visual Studio‘. The article is based on a press release from Evans Data that indicates in Europe/EMEA Eclipse...

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