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I attended a talk on Monday morning hosted by the Ottawa SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) forum titled “The Cost, Quality, and Security of Open Source Software: Fact and Fiction”. The presenter, Khaled El Emam, who among his many varied titles is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa...

My goodness Ed Burnette is fast . Yes, as mentioned by Ed, I really am very pleased that Ward has decided to join the staff of the Eclipse Foundation. It’s really great to have him. I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with Ward at several points in the past, and...

We are starting to gear up for EclipseCon. To incent people to register early, you not only get a deal on the price but we will also be giving a copy of the new Eclipse RCP book to the first 200 passport registrants. For those that have already registered for...

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...