On the fourth episode of the Entrepreneurial Open Source Podcast, Thabang and I welcomed Miro Spönemann, general manager and software architect at TypeFox. Based in Kiel, Germany, TypeFox helps businesses and engineers become more productive and innovate faster through custom developer tools and languages. Open source frameworks are essential to...
Recently I wrote about the momentum happening in the Eclipse Theia project . In this post, I want to highlight some good reasons to adopt Theia as your IDE solution. The core use case for Theia is as a base upon which to build a custom IDE or tool. However...
Welcome to the eightieth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Our next Jakarta EE Update call is coming up on Wednesday, July 14th. Join in to get the latest updates from the Jakarta EE working group. It is an informal event where you will be able to ask any questions you...
The Eclipse Foundation jumped on the Kubernetes bandwagon a few years ago, for the same reasons as everyone else. Our need at the time was for a scalable/fault tolerant solution for our Jenkins-based CI system. We started small by repurposing older hardware, and with early successes, the cluster grew out...
Welcome to the seventy-ninth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have previously described how to migrate manually from the javax.* to jakarta.* namespace in this migration guide. While this migration is a pretty easy task, it can be time-consuming and error-prone. But don’t despair, the community is coming to your...
Almost every day, I see more concrete evidence that software development is shifting to the cloud, and that the Eclipse Cloud DevTools Working Group and its members are playing a leadership role in driving the transition. To get a sense of the scale, scope, and momentum underway in the Cloud...
All of us at the Eclipse Foundation are very proud of the fact that the many thousands of individuals who collaborate across our many channels have always communicated in a very professional, respectful, and welcoming manner. It’s particularly gratifying for me that, while we’ve had a Community Code of Conduct...
Welcome to the seventy-eighth issue of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Summer is here (at least for those of us located in the Northern hemisphere…) and things are slowing down a little everywhere. But, the Jakarta EE Platform project continues to check items off the list preparing for Jakarta EE 10. In...
The first ever Cloud IDE Day was held on May 19th, 2021 as a virtual event. While we do have our ongoing Cloud Tool Time webinars and Cloud Chat Twitch.tv series, for the Eclipse Cloud DevTools Working Group , Cloud IDE Day was our first attempt at organizing a larger...
The latest episode of the Entrepreneurial Open Source Podcast features Webtide, the company behind CometD and a key contributor to Eclipse Jetty. Even if you haven’t heard of Jetty, you’re probably familiar with some of the products and services powered by it. As one of the world’s most widely deployed...