This week, Borland made some very audacious moves when they announced an acquisition of Segue and a divestiture of their IDE tools business. As others have commented, this does not mean the end of JBuilder or Delphi, but these are certainly bold and strategic moves. I can still recall using...
Simon Phipps wrote an interesting blog post musing about the how the Japanese business model of interlocking companies ( keiretsu) and the long tail intersect to describe the functionings of open source communities. Basically, the idea is that open source communities can be described as “code keiretsus around a long...
I thought I would mention a few early thoughts on the GPLv3 progress, and the impact it may have on the Eclipse community. (In other words, I am most emphatically not talking about the merits of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)’s proposed GPL revisions in general.) Janet Campbell from the...
Now there’s a company that know how to treat its developers. 2400 hundred technical people (1200 from out of town) all in the San Jose Convention Centre. That is a non-trivial investment of time and money into team building. But if you’re going to work in a distributed environment, it...
Ed has updated his Eclipse RCP tutorial series to reflect changes in Eclipse 3.1.2. If you’re getting started with RCP, start here.
EclipseCon is rapidly approaching, less than six week away! I have my hotel booked but still need to get airline tickets. We are putting a big push on this week to have people register before February 14. After this date the registration prices start to go up. So if you...
In 2005, we spent a lot of time talking about Eclipse as being more than just a Java IDE. However I don’t think we did a very good job saying what Eclipse really is. EclipseCon is quickly approaching, so I would like to try to take the opportunity to start...
I had lunch the other day with Doug Pollock and John Arthorne; Doug and John are joining me in coaching the upcoming code camps that we’re running during the Eclipse in Motion tour and we met to discuss how we’re going to run the camps (both John and Doug work...
The Eclipse Wiki is a pretty cool source of information. If you’re curious about the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), there’s a section in the Wiki that discusses it and organizes a collection of links, references, books, etc… everything you need to know about RCP. It’s your basic one-stop-shopping source...
Perhaps it’s because of my recent trip to China, but it is becoming increasingly clear that internationalization is a very big deal for everyone in the software world. The ability to fully enable products and applications for double-byte and bi-directional languages is key. Enter ICU4J. One look at the JDK...