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GSoC Timeline

Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 14:26 by Wayne Beaton
The Google Summer of Code timeline is posted in the GSoC FAQ . According to the timeline, students have until March 31 to submit their project proposals. Don’t delay, submit today!

Video Podcast: Creating an Equinox Service using Declarative Services

Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 11:46 by Wayne Beaton
I just posted a video podcast titled “ Creating an Equinox Service using Declarative Services “. This video podcast briefly describes Equinox services and goes through the steps required to create and run a service using the Equinox Declarative Services (in incubation at the time of recording). For the recording...

GSoC Students: Read this carefully

Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 10:38 by Wayne Beaton
We’ve received many wonderful applications; I’m really looking forward to this term’s GSoC. Students, you need to submit your proposals through the Google Summer of Code system. You can find it here: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ . You will have to register with Google if you want them to pay you for your...

Best part of EclipseCon

Friday, March 21, 2008 - 00:16 by Wayne Beaton
Tonight I was asked what, for me, was the highlight of EclipseCon 2008 . The keynotes were good… great even. Finally meeting Eric Rizzo, one of the most prolific contributors on eclipse.newcomer , face-to-face was great. I attended many sessions and enjoyed them all (though I have to admit a...

Using ECF for Lightweight Distributed Team Collaboration

Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 17:48 by Wayne Beaton
In Using ECF for Lightweight Distributed Team Collaboration Scott Lewis (BEA Systems), started by stating the goals of the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) project: to “lower barriers to team and community communication by providing [an] interoperable, integrated, extensible framework”. Scott spoke of team productivity. Specifically, he talked a book by...

Gratuitous Weather Reference

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 18:14 by Wayne Beaton
People often ask us why we have EclipseCon in Santa Clara every year. This is the convention center in Santa Clara: (note the fountains on the left, the palm trees, and the generally warm glow). This is my home in Ottawa (where most Eclipse Foundation employees live): (note the after...

Understanding JFace Data Binding

Monday, March 17, 2008 - 20:52 by Wayne Beaton
I’ve tinkered with the JFace DataBinding, but haven’t had a chance to really dig into it. So, this afternoon I attended “ Understanding JFace Data Binding “, presented by Boris Bokowski (IBM Rational Software), Michael Scharf (Wind River), and Frank Gerhardt (Gerhardt Informatics). I loved the presentation style. They very...