Blog Posts

I am off to New York City to attend Eclipse World. Congratulations to BZ Media for putting on what looks like a very strong program. If you attending, drop me an e-mail (ian dot eclipse.org). I’d love to share a beer or two with some Eclipse users.

Ed Burnette of EclipseZone has posted an interesting interview with the leaders of the eRCP project. This project just released their first release candidate of eSWT. If you want a good overview of this project and the future directions, it is definitely worth the read.

We are planning to issue a press release next Monday announcing the new CDT 3.0 release. Btw, the download is already available. The CDT team has done a ton of work on the parser and build system, making it a lot easier to integrate into other products. Congratulations to the...

This week I read two articles which really got me thinking about the value of an agile and community-based development processes. The first was the fact that roughly six weeks after shipping Eclipse 3.1, Eclipse 3.2 M1 is already available. And it is not just a token release. There are...

I am back from vacation and dealing with the inevitable mound of emails. Sometimes I wonder if vacations are, in fact, worth the agony of returning to work The past few months have been fascinating in terms of watching the sudden explosion in Eclipse-focused web portals and news sources. I...

So the Million Download Challenge is officially over as of August 7th. We are currently sitting at 1,000,130

So the Eclipse 3.1 download meter is currently at 994,930. Are there 5,070 people out there who are going to download on a Saturday night? I will check it again at midnight to see which day counts as the end of the challenge. All you folks out there who pledged...

As mentioned by Ted Leung, this weekend the OSCON folks have organized the Free/Libre Open Source Software Project Summit. A big “thank you” goes to Allison Randal for all of the work to set this up. The first day was focused on intros, overviews of organization, governance and funding. It...

I just read a hilarious presentation from ApacheCon Europe entitled Why I Hate the Apache Web Server. I think that any successful project with some history will have some warts and inconsistencies. I’m sure we have our share. Anyone out there interested in creating a similar presentation for EclipseCon 2006...

I am heading out for a 2 week vacation. It looks like I won’t be hear to see the counter roll over to 1 million downloads. So when will we actually get to 1 million? Right now we are at 854,694. It seems we are getting about 20,000 per day...