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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...

I’d like to organize a blogging party at EclipseCon. I think it would be cool to meet in person all the different Eclipse bloggers. We could even talk about who is going to blog at EclipseCon and what sessions are going to get covered. If you are up for it...

I just got a stack of evaluations from a conference I spoke at last year. I delivered three separate talks at this conference, so the stack is pretty tall. Most of the evaluations are good, containing comments like “All presenters should be this good”, “Superb as usual”, and “Very good...

The new elected reperesentatives on the Eclipse Board of Directors as of April 1 will be: Committer Representatives: Scott Lewis (*) Kai-Uwe Maetzel (*) Jeff McAffer Tim Wagner Add-In Provider Representatives: Jochen Krause Howard Lewis (*) Mike Taylor Todd Williams (*) I would also like to recognize the contribution of...

I am starting to write a press release to announce some project initiatives around RCP. I want to include a short, crisp description of what is RCP. The cool thing about the Eclipse community is that Kim has already started to create a version. I took some of Kim’s ideas...

Ward and I have been talking about mashups a lot lately. We both think that Eclipse RCP is a great vehicle for building mashups on the desktop (we don’t think that mashups should be exclusive to the web). I’ve managed to invoke a few web services and do some interesting...

Anyone interested in my previous comments regarding the Higgins announcement should also read Bob Sutor’s post that so eloquently lays to rest much of the hyperbole concerning this announcement.

We are in the final 3 weeks of EclipseCon registration. As of last week we had over 900 people registered. This year on Monday, we have 36 tutorials covering a wide variety of topics being offered. I thought it would be interesting to share with you the number of people...

How about this… Start typing the name of a method (where a method should go). Don’t worry about the return type or anything else, just the name. Hit ctrl-space. Eclipse will offer to build a new private method with that name. Type “main” and hit ctrl-space and it will build...