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Last week we held Eclipse Day events in New York, Austin and two in Toronto. Unlike some previous Eclipse Days that were focused on a vertical, these events were focused on a technology, specifically Modeling and EclipseRT. Most of the presentations have now been posted on the event web sites...

Each year at EclipseCon we announce the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. The last 4 years we have recognized worthy individuals and products for their contribution to the Eclipse community. This year I’d like to take a fresh look at the Eclipse awards and see if we can/should revamp...

Microsoft announced today they have purchased the Teamprise technology from SourceGear, products that allow Eclipse developers to connect to the MS Team Foundation Server (TFS). The Teamprise clients will be bundle into Visual Studio 2010, which appears to be set for launch in March 2010. If I am not mistaken...

I’ve just uploaded the slides of the two talks I gave at Eclipse Summit Europe last week on SlideShare. Feel free to contact me if you have questions! I enjoyed the event a lot (cool talks, cool food, cool people), and I already can’t wait for EclipseCon 2010! Use Eclipse...

Developers in Toronto have a great opportunity to participate in back-to-back Eclipse events: Eclipse Modeling and EclipseRT Day on November 18 & 19. Think of it as a mini-EclipseCon but with polite Canadians saying ‘eh’, ‘pop’ and ‘about’. Modeling and Eclipse runtime technology (including OSGi and Equinox) are two of...

This week the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is celebrating its 10th birthday at their ApacheCon conference. ASF has been a pioneer and leader in the open source community. When the Eclipse Foundation was first created, ASF was a source and inspiration for many of the Foundation’s principles (transparency, meritocracy) and...

Each year we ask the attendees of Eclipse Summit Europe some questions about themselves. It gives us some insight into who is actually attending the conference. Here are some of the results. 1. Where do people live? Not surprisingly, a lot of the ESE attendees are from Germany; in total...

Earlier this year we started a project to re-create Eclipse Plugin Central. Thanks to the hard work of Nathan Gervais, we are getting very close to making Eclipse Marketplace a reality. In late September, we rolled out a beta of the site and now we would like to get even...

JetBrains just announced an open source edition of their popular IntelliJ IDE, under the Apache 2.0 license. As many might know, IntelliJ was one of the last IDE’s that actually cost money. It appears they have adopted an open source plus commerical value add strategy, similar to many companies in...

Kirk Knoernschild from Burton Group is asking for inut to an OSGi Survey. Last year Kirk did a similar survey and the results we pretty interesting. As Kirk mentioned, not exactly a scientific survey but since OSGi seems to be gaining momentum it will be interesting to compare results. The...