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Bjorn surprise me today when he announced that EclipseCon was heading towards a sell-out. I’ve always thought the big Santa Clara Convention Center, no problem…. Well it turns out we only have enough seats to feed between 1400-1500 people. The side effect is that if you were planning on registering...

Last week, I blogged about some work that I’m doing with Eclipse Monkey. I finally found a few minutes to wrap it all up into an RCP application. In doing so, I did have to refactor the Eclipse Monkey code a bit. These changes are focused primarily on extracting the...

Evan’s Data has release another IDE market survey from November 2005. This survey is free to download, so everyone can take a look. An interesting thing about this survey is that it includes more than just Java IDEs. Microsoft Visual Studio comes out on top, in terms of share, but...

Each year BZ Research (publishers of SD Times and Eclipse Review) do a ‘ Java Use and Awareness‘ survey of the SD Times readers. One of the question is ‘What java development environment do you use?’ They have been doing this since 2002, so you can see some interesting trends...

I have to admit that I really enjoy EclipseCon. OK, so I’ve only been to one of the two so far, but last year really was a killer conference. As of last night we were just about at 1200 registrations, so we know for sure that this year’s event is...

Bjorn has already announced the finalist for the Individual Awards. I had the pleasure of working with a panel of judges to determine the finalist for the Technology Awards. The winners will be announced Monday, March 21 at an EclipseCon reception. Congratulations to all of the finalists and a special...

Got a PHB who needs to know–in non-technical terms–why you should be adopting RCP? Jeff has made the forward from the Eclipse Rich Client Platform book available. In it, Jeff Norris from NASA explains how his organization benefitted from RCP. It’s available here (in PDF format). And by-the-way… I use...

In this new Eclipse Corner Article, Teach Your Eclipse to Speak the Local Lingo, author Kit Lo describes how you can locate, download, and use language packs to localize Eclipse into your favourite language. Here, for example, is Eclipse 3.1.1 in Russian: And, here it is in Arabic (Egypt): Note...

The great thing about the Eclipse community is that it is truly a global community. Taking a look at the countries that will be represented at EclipseCon, you start to get that feeling. In total, close to 45 different countries will be reprsented. Of course a large percentage are coming...

I have seen more than a few references to Tim O’Reilly‘s post on IDE buzz. I actually thought that Tim’s post was well written and thoughtfully speculative. No one can reasonably take issue with statements like: I don’t really follow the IDE wars, but this result surprised me, so I...