Blog Posts

I presented my talk on Eclipse Rich Client Platform today at The Server Side Java Symposium in Barcelona. The talk started well and I think it ended strong, but I feel like it dragged in the middle. I decided that, given that the audience expects heavy technical discussion at a...

What is the business benefit of Eclipse? We often get asked this question, so we decided to ask Dana Gardner to explore the answers to this question through a series of podcasts. The first in a series of three podcast features Brent Williams, a senior analyst from Key Banc Capital...

I’m blown away by the number of times my demos have been viewed. Especially since most of them were done over the weekend. Don’t you people have lawns to mow? I’ve got another one for you… Installing and Using the Eclipse Web Tools. Again, there’s no sound. I’ve started playing...

Today, we ran that last of the 3 webinars featuring different projects included in Callisto. If you are interested, the webinars were recorded and are available for playback. Each webinar is about 50-60 minutes in length. The feedback we have received has been very positive, so it maybe worth your...

I was on a bit of a screen demo’ing roll and built this little demonstration of how you go about installing and using the Eclipse Visual Editor. Again, there’s no sound, so don’t bother increasing your volume or yelling at the kids to quiet down. The demonstration starts from a...

I made this little demo a few weeks back. It goes through the process of installing the CDT feature and then how you use it to build your first C programme. It starts from an already-installed Eclipse workbench–either the SDK or the Platform Runtime Binaries–and uses the Callisto Discovery Site...

Timothy O’Brien has written about his experiences using the Callisto release candidates. Congratulations to the Callisto team, it seems like you’ve make Timothy a happy user. I also think Timothy has captured the essence of the Eclipse community: It differs from other “open-source” communities in that it feels both more...

Phillip Su, a Microsoft Program Manager, has written a very interesting and frank blog about the challenges of shipping Vista. At the end he asks the question ‘Are Vista-scale software projects essentially uncontrollable by nature?’ I personally think the answer to the question is ‘no they are controllable’ and Callisto...

Beatriz Iaderoza and Grant Gayed have contributed this article to Eclipse Corner on how to use the new virtual tables and trees added with SWT 3.2.

One of the things that I really enjoy about my job is that I continue to be surprised/impressed by where Eclipse is being used. For example, this morning on CNET I learn ‘Cisco buys communication software development tools’. This for obvious reasons caught my eye, so I looked into the...