Blog Posts

I maintain an informal collection of life goals. Many of them have something to do with glass elevators, but I’ll save those for another day. Let me introduce life goal #129: to have a bug raised against me; not against code that I’ve written, but against my actual person. I...

Here’s something that’s pretty cool… If you want to keep up with what a team’s doing, you can listen in on their bug reports (and responses to the reports). Effectively, you can listen in to the emails that result from bug reports being created and responded to. Do this, first...

Observations On Marketing Open Source Projects On a number of occasions I have been asked for advice on how to ‘market’ an Eclipse open source project. I know there is no one secret formula but I do think there are some best practices. Here is what I often tell people...

Thanks to everyone that provided feedback on the draft press release guidelines. The final version is now posted here.

Tomorrow we will be issuing a press release to announce support for the OSGi R4 specification. To some people this may seem like old news, but in some ways I think the Eclipse use of the OSGi specification as the component model is a misunderstood feature of Eclipse. For those...

If anyone is interested in exhibiting at EclipseCon, the exhibitor package is now posted on the EclipseCon web site. Also don’t forget about the Call for Submissions. Deadline for submitting tutorials is Nov. 1 and presentations Nov. 15.

Back near the end of May, I posted a series of screenshots showing different RCP applications. A number of people have sent me links to new RCP applications, so I thought it was about time to post an updated presentation. You can also see details of the applications on the...

The other big announcement today is that Compuware has announced it has become a Strategic Developer member of the Eclipse Foundation. Compuware has been a long time add-in provider member of the Foundation. It is great to see they are increasing their level of participation and building their OptimaJ product...

A couple of very cool announcements coming out today. First, Macromedia has announced their Eclipse based Flex IDE. Looks like an alpha version will be available later this month. I think it is pretty cool that Macromedia is building their next generation IDE on top of Eclipse. Certainly demonstrated the...

And yet, they seem to be able to keep coming out with ways to improve it. Take a look at “ An early look at JUnit 4” byElliotte Harold on developerWorks site for some highlights of what to expect. As of the writing of the article, the new version isn’t...