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At any technology conference attendees expect to learn from the industry experts, EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect certainly deliver the experts. However, learning from the experiences of others is equally important. That is why this year the EclipseCon and Agile ALM Connect program has a big focus on learning from...

The IDE for the Lua programming language that is being developed within the Koneki project is getting more and more adoption these days. There are two main segments where Lua is intensively used: embedded platforms (the Lua VM has a very small footprint and is written in pure ANSI C...

Each year companies and open source communities release some amazing new products/projects based on Eclipse. It really is amazing the innovation and creativity that happens in the Eclipse ecosystem. Last year we recognized many of these new product at the New Product Showcase at EclipseCon 2011. The winner of the...

During the month of January I have been doing some advertising for EclipseCon 2012 and Agile ALM Connect. This year we are in a new location (Reston, VA) and Agile ALM Connect is a new conference, so we wanted to make sure the word got out. I am a big...

When you register for EclipseCon 2012 and Agile ALM Connect you are asked to pre-select the tutorial you want to attend on Monday. We do this so we can ensure the more popular tutorials are in the bigger rooms and to make sure people have a place to sit (three...

‘The build is broken’ is something I’ve heard too many times in my software development career. Concepts like continuous delivery and devops make it all that more important to have a build that you can trust. In the Agile ALM Connect session, Build Trust in Your Build to Deployment Flow...

DevOps is one of those terms you hear a LOT about lately but I am not sure it is really well understood. However, if you are going to be successful at Agile ALM it would seem natural you would want to bring the operations side of IT closer into the...

Lifecycle tool integration is a key issue for the new breed of tools emerging around the concepts of Agile ALM. Eclipse is a great platform for tools integration on the desktop but how do tools integrate on the server? OSLC and Eclipse Lyo are a specification and open source implementation...

This is the final week of nominations for the Eclipse Community Awards. I would particularly like to see more nominees in the Top Committer, Top Contributor and Newcomer Evangelist category. Deadline for nominations is Friday, January 27, 2012.

Congratulations to the Orion team for being named a 2011 Open Source Rookie of the Year project by Black Duck Software. Black Duck based the awards on the data they analyzed from their two services: Ohloh and the Black Duck Knowledgebase. The metrics they used were: “Using a weighted scoring...