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The EPP project has published for download the new Galileo M7 packages. The observant reader will notice two new packages: 1) Eclipse IDE for PHP Developers and 2) Pulsar for Mobile Java Developers. Now is the time to start testing and providing feedback to the project teams.

We launched the Eclipse Community Survey to collect feedback on how people are using open source software and Eclipse. We plan to publish the results in June. It takes about 5 minutes to complete, so I hope you will give us your feedback. Deadline for responding is May 15, 2009.

In Canada, camping season traditionally begins the third weekend in May, known locally as the May two-four weekend. In the Eclipse community, we are getting ready for a new season of Eclipse DemoCamps starting May 18-June 26. We have DemoCamps organized in 27 cities around the world, including for the...

This year we had the opportunity to record some of the sessions at EclipseCon. Over the next month we will be rolling them out 20-30 recordings on Eclipse Live. Below are links to the first 6. Enjoy. EclipseCon 09: Take the Fat Man Off your Application and it Will Run...

I don’t normally follow the RubyOnRails community but a current controversy in the RoR community caught my attention. The heart of the matter is a recent conference presentation, titled ‘CouchDB – Perform like a porn star’, that offended a number of the community members. More details can be found in...

This year the OSGi Alliance is holding their OSGi Community Event on September 22-23, 2009 in Redwood City. The Eclipse Foundation is a member of the OSGi Alliance and I have been asked to act as the conference chair. Today we announced the Call for Papers for the event. The...

Doesn’t everyone want to be a rocket scientist? Here is your chance to use your Eclipse skills and work on the development of spacecraft operations software at NASA. Seems like a pretty cool job. The guys at NASA have been great supporters of Eclipse. You can find out more about...

I am working on three projects that could use the assistance of a graphic artist or at least someone with Photoshop skills. If you are so inclined, all contributions are appreciated. 1. We need a graphic for the upcoming Galileo release. You can see what was done in previous years...

We are making plans to field a survey of the Eclipse community. The goal is to better understand how and what people are doing with Eclipse and open source in general. We plan to open the survey next week and hope to publish the results in early June. I would...

The big news today is Google’s announcement that Google App Engine will now support Java. At the same time Google made available an Eclipse plugin to make it easier to write Java applications for App Engine. This video provides a great demo of the Eclipse support. Having Java support on...