Current Nominations for Eclipse Awards
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.
Blog Posts
JBoss Poll on IDEs
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...
Eclipse wins Development Tool of the Year
Congratulations to the Eclipse community for winning the ‘Development Tool of the Year’ award from Developer.com.
Eclipse Awards
I reviewed the nominations for the Eclipse Awards today and there seems to be only moderate activity. In fact, I only see eight nominations for top contributor. There’s a lot more contributors out there than that. Nominating somebody is easy: it’s just a bugzilla entry and there’s handy links to...
Sun’s Eclipse Plug-in for GlassFish
Kind of cool to see Sun publishing an Eclipse plug-in for GlassFish. Nice to also see them hooking into the new Web Tools 1.0 release and the Dali project. btw, I was pointed to the plug-in from this blog.
Mashup Camp
David Berlind is organizing a Mashup Camp and seems to be getting a lot of interest. David indicated to me that some people are interested in talking about IDE’s for building mashups. A project I would love to see started at Eclipse is one that focuses on frameworks and tools...
A prediction and bet for 2006
David Berlind is a respected journalist and probably my favourite blogger at ZDNet. He recently blogged that Eclipse is really on a roll in 2005 and into 2006. But he also suggested that ‘Is it time for NetBeans to finally throw in the towel?’ Tim Bray, noted Sun technologist, took...
New Eclipse Magazine
BZ Media has just announced the new Eclipse Review magazine. It will be a print magazine that is available on a quarterly basis. I understand that the first edition will be available at EclispeCon. You can sign-up for a free subscription here.
The Plunge
Today, I’m going to indulge myself with a brief discussion of my New Year’s Day activities. As is my tradition, I participated in the annual Polar Bear Dip here in Ottawa. For those readers who have not been initiated into world of Polar Bear Dipping, it’s pretty simple: on the...
Blog Editor on Eclipse RCP
Happy New Year! Over the holidays I finally found someone that has created a blog editor on Eclipse RCP. Lokesh Shah is creating JBlogEditor. It is still a beta version so it still needs some work. For instance, I would love to have a WYSIWIG editor. However, I am writing...