Is it just me?
Everytime somebody says something about the Eclipse 3.2 release train, I hear Natalie Merchant‘s voice in the back of my head singing Peace Train. Is it just me?
Blog Posts
Deploying an RCP application on multiple platforms
I’ve been answering a bunch of questions from the webinar Jeff and I delivered a few days back. One listener asked: Do I need to develop three different applications if I want a Windoze, Linux and Mac version? No. You can use exactly the same code base on all three...
Erich Gamma podcast about Eclipse
A recording Erich Gamma’s December 8th podcast is available for your listening enjoyment. As billed, the interview touches on the following points: Learn how to balance cost reduction against its impact on customer loyalty. What was IBM’s motivation in initially launching the Eclipse project? Where will Eclipse go from here...
Building GUIs in Eclipse
Jeff and I got a lot of questions during the webinar we did last week, but we were only able to answer a few of them in the time we had available. The good people at BZ Media were nice enough to send me a file with all the questions...
What is a Rich Client?
There is a lot of talk about the Eclipse Rich Client Platform ( RCP). Jeff McAffer and I delivered a webinar on the topic a few days ago and I’m getting ready to deliver a similar talk at Javapolis in Belgium next week. One of the things that I like...
When to use Eclipse RCP?
As we start talking more and more about Eclipse RCP, I find it important to be able to describe when someone should consider using Eclipse RCP, instead of alternative technologies. If anything it starts to help people better understand the capabilities of Eclipse RCP. In the space of platforms for...
Eclipse Community Awards
We have just announced the Eclipse Community Awards (yes I know we need a better name, more on that later). A lot of individuals and organizations spend countless hours contributing to the Eclipse community. This is your chance to nominate that individual or technology that you think is deserving of...
Gartner Open Source Conference and ApacheCon
Over the next two weeks I will be traveling to the Gartner Open Source Conference and ApacheCon. I think it is really great to see Gartner hosting an open source conference. I am hopeful they will start helping educate the decision makers in IT departments on the merits and issues...
The Order of the Phoenix
Our website rebornPhoenix becomes the main siteHope you like purple I’m guessing that nobody was impressed with my Eclipse Haiku yesterday. That’s okay, it was my first attempt at an Eclipse-based Haiku (I wrote a few great ones about Alanis Morrisette last year, but I digress). It just gets better...
RCP adoption numbers
BZ Media just release their 2005 Eclipse Adoption Survey. Unfortunately, you need to purchase the survey to get access to all of the data. However, they did make public the results of a question about interest in RCP. I was pretty pleased that 25% indicated they were either using or...