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There comes a time in the life of every open source community when they know they’ve made it…that the work they are doing is fundamentally changing the industry and impacting how people look at the development landscape. So when is that moment? Is it when it hits 50 million downloads...

I’ve started working through the list of submissions for EclipseCon 2006. There’s a lot of great stuff there. There’s a tonne of talks and tutorials on the Developer track which is, of course, great. There are a bunch on the User track and I can see about seven on the...

I just cast my vote in the JDJ Readers’ Choice Awards. I think of this as superior to the Peoples’ Choice Awards as there is little chance of running into Paris Hilton at the award ceremony. This is for two very good reasons: (1) Paris Hilton isn’t interested in this...

I sorted it out. Last month, I wrote about some work that I was doing with the EBay SDK and Eclipse RCP. I had a few problems getting the integration to work, but I’ve sorted them out. I demoed it to Ian today and even he thought it looks pretty...

A few days ago, I listed some of the books that we’re going to be giving away at JavaPolis. I just learned that we’re also giving away a whole set of the Addison-Wesley Eclipse Series. I’ll just bet you wish you were going to JavaPolis now. Mmmm… free books…

Just a reminder the deadline for submitting EclipseCon tutorial proposals is tomorrow, November 1. Go here, if you are interested in browsing the list of proposals already submitted. btw, Nov. 15 is the deadline for proposing sessions.

My review of the book is posted on EclipseZone. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.

I’m really excited about JavaPolis. We had another member come forward today to contribute to the Eclipse in Action sessions; I can’t wait to post the agenda we’ve assembled: it’s packed with technical sessions that will delight and amaze you. In a previous post, I mentioned books. Here’s the list...

It is great that people are sending in examples of RCP applications. We posting a list here. Every once in a while someone sends me an example that is really different. Last week, Wolfgang Gehner for Infonoia SA sent me a link to the application they did for the World...

The CDT Contributors Conference wrapped up tonight with a social event at a local pool hall. The event was well attended by lots of really smart people. To start with, Ward Cunningham was there. Early in the evening Dave Thomas showed up. Brian Foote was there as well. Of course...