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    Participant for an EclipseCon Panel

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    Question Conventional Wisdom

    by Mike Milinkovich

    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...

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    Current Nominations for Eclipse Awards

    by Anonymous

    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.

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    JBoss Poll on IDEs

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    Eclipse Awards

    by Wayne Beaton

    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...

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    Sun’s Eclipse Plug-in for GlassFish

    by Anonymous

    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.

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    Mashup Camp

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    A prediction and bet for 2006

    by Anonymous

    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...

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    New Eclipse Magazine

    by Anonymous

    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.

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