Blog Posts

I’m heading to the airport soon, and wanted to blog about the week before leaving. I’ve been in Bejing this week for the first annual Eclipse Day in China. This event was hosted by Tsinghua University, the premier technical university in China. (Sometimes referred to as the “MIT of China”.)...

Last year at Eclipse World, Patrick Kerpin, at the time CTO of Borland, did a great keynote presentation; part of which touch upon of his criteria for the success of RCP. He wanted to see the open source community to start building higher value components, ex. ERP and CRM system...

Today I’ve been working through some of the outstanding bugs raised against existing articles in Eclipse Corner. It’s a lot of work, but most of the changes are relatively small things that are relatively easy to fix. It’d be nice if the authors could fix the problems themselves, but I...

Apologies to Chris. I had John Arthorne’s name in my head as I was typing this and erroneously gave John credit where it was due Chris. Somebody please call me an idiot. Chris Aniszczyk and Lawrence Mandel are taking a stab at revolutionizing the way that Eclipse articles are authored...

Authors have been very busy this month. Yesterday, Frederic Plante’s article, “ Introducing the GMF Runtime” was added to the Eclipse Corner Articles site. Oddly enough, in this article Frederic introduces the GMF runtime. A lot of folks have been waiting for GMF to make their lives easier (during his...

Earlier today, I posted an article on Eclipse Forms by Dejan Glozic onto the Eclipse Corner Articles site. It’s pretty powerful stuff; using the Forms API, you can build user interface components that look and feel “browser-like”. As the article suggests, forms are probably best suited for views and editors...

I am helping to organize an EclipseCon panel called ‘ Enterprise Ready: Deploying Eclipse in a large enterprise‘. This panel is part of the business track and the focus is on the management and technical aspects of deploying Eclipse into a large enterprise. If you know of someone that would...

As already referenced by Bjorn and Ward, this article by John Mark Walters makes for some very interesting reading. I highly recommend it, and I am already looking forward to reading the next one in his series. The article has some interesting implications for Eclipse. I would venture to say...

I have created a web site that shows the current list of nominations for the Eclipse Technology Awards. There is still lots of time to nominate your product. Deadline for nominations is January 27, 2006.

In the most recent JBoss newsletter they published the result of a poll they did of their user based, asking what is your favourite IDE. Eclipse comes in at 58% and if you combine MyEclipse it pushes the total to 67%. This reaffirms the trend I have noticed in surveys...