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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Here is my first attempt at writing a Haiku about Eclipse: Eclipse RCPNot just a window systemComponents are king! I believe that discussing Eclipse is a reasonably good stand-in for the requirement that traditional Haiku have something to do with nature (the Wikipedia says that it’s supposed to be a...
I’ve spoken about this in the past, but it’s a pretty important topic, so I thought I’d bring it up again (and will likely do so again)… One of the best ways to keep up to date with what’s happening at Eclipse is to listen in on bugzilla. Bugzilla is...
We’re getting close to the final countdown for our first release of Phoenix on Nov. 30th. Or, in other words, finally switching the www.eclipse.org home page over to our new look and feel. The look and content have really come together in the last couple weeks and days. There’s nothing...