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As some have reported, OS Summit Asia has been postponed. What hasn’t been so clear is why? The simple reason is that not enough people had registered for the conference. Hosting a conference that no one attends, is just not a good way to host a conference. The reason why...

Andrew Overholt from the Fedora team sent Wayne and myself a USBkey with the Fedora 8 Developer Spin. This morning I decided to take it for a spin. First some disclaimers, 1) I am ashamed to say that I have never installed Linux on my machine. Basically, I use the...

I was asked recently if I knew of a good JSP editor for Eclipse. The easiest answer is to look at the Web Tools 2.0, part of the Europa release and available from the Europa update site, which includes a visual HTML/JSP/JSF editor. I’ve had some good experiences with this...

We get a lot of calls at the Foundation from people who are looking for Eclipse-related services. If you’re looking for services focused on Eclipse technology, check out Eclipse Plug-in Central‘s Training and Consulting page.

David Berlind was the first person to point out in his article that Android may be the start of a power stuggle for Java. Stefano has also an interesting perspective on Google’s plans to get around Sun’s IP restrictions for Java ME. Now that the Android SDK is out, it...

The Android SDK is out. The quote I enjoy most is: The recommended way to develop an Android application is to use Eclipse with the Android plugin. This plugin provides editing, building, and debugging functionality integrated right into the IDE. However, the SDK includes tools to enable you to develop...

Thanks to our organizers we have over 20 Eclipse DemoCamps in different cities around the world. The first is set to happen tomorrow, November 13 in Chicago and things really get going next week. Next week there will be DemoCamps on November 21 in Beijing, Istanbul, Munich, Ottawa, and Poznan...

Eclipse World has wrapped up for another year. Thanks to BZ Media for putting on another excellent show. I look forward to the 2008 edition. The Eclipse MLP Tour made a stop at Eclipse World. The main focus of the tour was in the exhibit hall. Here is MLP Java...

Fedora 8 was launched earlier this week. The released introduced the concept of spins, which is a customize image of Fedora for a specific user profile. One of the spins is a developer spin, that includes among other things, a pretty complete stack of Eclipse Europa tools, including CDT, JDT...

Eclipse World officially starts today; yesterday were the tutorials. It seems like a good crowd and I am looking forward to attending some of the sessions. If you are at Eclipse World, don’t forget to attend the Eclipse Foundation party tonight at 8pm. It is also nice to see some...