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A number of people asked me if the keynote Jeff Norris gave was recorded. Unfortunately we didn’t record any of the sessions this year. However, Chris Aniszczyk had the good sense to record the final four minutes of his presentation. Chris left a link to the clip in my comments...

The e4-Rover Mars Challenge has come to an end. The feedback and participation was outstanding. Thank you to everyone who played. We introduced e4 to a lot of people this week. There are two categories in the contest: Top Score and Best Client. The winner of the top score was...

I have been attending technical conferences and trade shows for over 20 years. I have seen hundreds of keynotes speakers, many very good. Today I saw the best keynote presentation ever! Jeff Norris from NASA JPL gave an amazing keynote presentation at EclipseCon. He was rewarded with a standing ovation...

The first release of the Eclipse Marketplace Client (MPC) is now available in the Helios M6 Java IDE and RCP packages. This is the next step towards creating an ‘App Store’ like experience for the Eclipse ecosystem. The goal is to allow a developer to install a new Eclipse solution...

We are ready for Round 2 of feedback on an updated Eclipse Logo. We have narrowed the options to four different concepts. As a reminder, the purpose of this exercise is to see if we can find ways to modernize and update the existing Eclipse logo. We are not looking...

The EclipseCon e4-Rover Mars Challenge is coming together very nicely. It is turning out to be an impressive use of Eclipse technology, including e4, Equinox and Equinox in the Cloud. I had the chance to interview Jeff Norris from NASA and Boris Bokowski an e4 and Platform committer. I asked...

It is always nice to come across examples of people thinking about future IDEs. I came across CodeBubbles and this video. Looks pretty cool and it is built on Eclipse. I wonder if they use e4?

In case you missed the news, Oracle is now in control of the Java community. The next 6 months are going to be fascinating to watch Oracle put their stamp on the JCP, OpenJDK, Java 7, Glassfish, Jigsaw, JavaME, dynamic languages and much more. I have a lot of confidence...

Round 1 of the voting for a modernized Eclipse Logo is now finished. We had an incredible 2128 people vote; a great response! Thank you. Unfortunately, Houston we have a bit of a problem. The two leading design concepts (Logo 1 and Logo 2) really don’t fit the original goal...

Open source has come a long way over the last number of years. Apache Software Foundation celebrated their 10th anniversary. Lots of open source companies have figured out how to make money off open source software. Large companies have also figured out how to leverage open source software. The question...