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Last week I attended the CTIA conference; the USA mobile phone industry conference. At the conference, Eclipse announced that Sony Ericsson and Ericsson had joined our Pulsar initiative. I also spent the week talking to developers and learning more about the mobile developer community. Mobile development is definitely on the...

This past week I had the opportunity to interview both keynote speakers for the upcoming Eclipse Summit Europe conference. My goal was to find out a bit more about their upcoming presentations. The interviews are now available as podcasts on Eclipse Live. Don Syme works at MS Research in Cambridge...

I believe that to grow any community you need to have vibrant online collaborations and periodic face-to-face meetings. The face-to-face meetings are how you develop and cement relationships. This is why I believe the Eclipse Days and the Eclipse DemoCamps are such an important part of growing the Eclipse community...

I am very pleased to announce the Eclipse Foundation will be hosting two EclipseRT Days in Austin and Toronto on November 17 and 19 respectively. What is EclipseRT you ask? EclipseRT is the name we are using to identify the Eclipse projects that are focused on delivering runtime frameworks and...

Like EclipseCon, we are encouraging the use of twitter at Eclipse Summit Europe. We have launched the ESE Birds Nest to highlight the speakers, exhibitors and conference attendees that are on twitter. There are a number of things you can do to follow ESE on twitter. 1. Join the ESE...

Eclipse Day at the Googleplex 2009 was another great success. Approximately 150 people attended the day long event in sunny Mountain View. The Googleplex is a great location (including the heated toilet seats) and our Google hosts put on a top notch day. What really impressed me was the quality...

Today is the last day for the Galileo Blog-a-thon. So far we have 114 blogs posts about Galileo! Thanks for everyone that participated and wrote reviews about the Galileo projects. The response has been tremendous. If you want to find out what is hot [and not hot] in Galileo, I...

The e4 team has published the first release of the e4 project. This is an early alpha release that allows the Eclipse community to start experimenting and exploring the e4 technology. To help you better understand what is possible with e4, we are running a series of e4 webinars on...

There is a generally not-known feature in the Eclipse Help which allows to configure the scope of searches. By default, whenever you perform a query, the search scope is restricted to your local help repository (i.e. Javadocs, API references, user guides contributed by plug-ins). However, it is possible to add...

I’ve been working for quite a while on finding solutions to the problems we are having in PDE as soon as we need to add support for new OSGi headers, to create new editors for cheatsheet files, p2 categories, etc. Declarative Services tooling is a good illustration of all these...