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...
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.
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...
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...
A new Eclipse conference, Eclipse Forum Europe, has just been announced for May 8-10 in Wiesbaden, Germany. There is a call for papers; deadline is January 20. They are also looking for exhibitors and sponsors. Germany has long been a hotbed for Eclipse, so this should be a great conference.
We are going to launch an Eclipse seminar series in February and early March, visiting San Diego, Dallas, Raleigh/Durham and Atlanta. The purpose of the seminars is two fold: 1) educate technical decision makers in IT departments on the benefit of using Eclipse as a platform for enterprise development and...
I’m working my way through the list of questions posed during the Eclipse RCP webinar. One listener asked about a dozen questions (and I’m hoping to get to them all, really), including this one: When talking about the user working offline with the intelligence in the application – where and...
After the Eclipse Board and Council meetings I headed down to San Diego to meet with the Executive Committees of the Java Community Process. I was there to have a conversation on what Eclipse is and what we do. On the way to SFO, we drove by this coffee shop...
The Web Tools Platform team is getting ready for their 1.0 release. We are issuing a press release on Monday about the release. Tim Wagner is the PMC leader of the WTP project. I had the chance to chat with Tim last week at the Eclipse council meetings. He agreed...
I’m working my way through the list of questions posed during the Eclipse RCP webinar. One listener asked: What methodology do you propose people use? This is an easy one: we don’t. I’m a huge fan of agile development methodologies (especially Extreme Programming) and so recommend that you at least...