Blog Posts

    No conspiracy "Steve"? Are you sure?

    by Wayne Beaton

    I don’t know if anybody else noticed this, but there is a black line in this now-famous picture of Steve Northover embracing the NetBeans girls at this year’s EclipseCon. I have to admit, that I initially found the line curious, but didn’t put too much thought into it. More recently...

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    Foundation in the Wild

    by Mike Milinkovich

    The staff of the Eclipse Foundation are a little spread out. We have most of the people here in Ottawa, but Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Ward Cunningham and Anne Jacko are all in Portland, Skip McGaughey is in North Carolina and Ralph Mueller is in Germany. Since everyone is so spread out...

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    Eclipse application architecture

    by Wayne Beaton

    In response to my Friday entry, Jeroen asked about Eclipse application design; how do you architect an Eclipse application? It’s a good question. I tend to fall back on classic patterns. As a start, I separate my application into multiple layers, employing the well known model-view-controller pattern. Typically, I’ll separate...

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    Eclipse users as far as the eye could see…

    by Wayne Beaton

    The Server Side Java Symposium wrapped up in Barcelona today. I sat on a keynote panel this morning titled “ 2010: A Developer’s Odyssey”. The basic idea was for the panel members to muse about what the ideal development environment will look like in four years. There was a lot...

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    The Callisto Culture

    by Mike Milinkovich

    Probably very few people know this, but when I first heard of the idea of doing what has become known as Callisto, I hated the idea. In fact, I attempted an ultimately unsuccessful argument against it. There were various reasons for this, but chief amongst them was that I didn’t...

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    Motorola Joins Eclipse Board

    by Mike Milinkovich

    Motorola announced this morning that they have joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and has proposed a new project focused on tools for mobile Linux. This is to complement the initiative they announced last week around mobile Linux. We’ve been working towards this for some months now, and...

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    Great coverage of Higgins

    by Anonymous

    David Berlind has been providing some great coverage of Eclipse Higgins at the Harvard Identity Mashup conference. His first posting provides a nice introduction and a great demo via some screen shots. Well worth the read. This was followed up by a post today that features a Q&A with Mary...

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    The Server Side Java Symposium in Barcelona

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Podcast: Wall Street Analyst talks about the Eclipse Effect

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    Installing and using the Eclipse Web Tools

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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