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The blogshere is all a twitter about Google’s recent Android announcement. Google certainly knows how to get people talking; first start the rumours about the gPhone, then announce something different – Android, but leave the details sufficiently vague so speculation starts about the real meaning. Nov. 12 is when the...

Today, IDC and the Eclipse Foundation published the results of an Eclipse Community survey. This was the survey that was fielded on eclipse.org earlier this summer. Thank you to the 1000+ individuals that responded to the survey. We have posted a summary of the results and a link to the...

A couple people have asked me for data on how fast people upgrade to a new version of Eclipse or specifically 3.3. Unfortunately, ‘data’ is difficult to get on Eclipse and in general open source. However, here is what I can find: In the first two months after the Europa...

Some local artists have expressed their excitement with the revitalized Visual Editor (VE) project at Eclipse. I thought that I’d share their artistic expression. For reasons unknown to me, the artists have opted to remain anonymous…

The Eclipse Foundation party at Eclipse World is starting to take shape. At the party, we will have committers from 9 different Eclipse projects answering questions and showing off the latest and greatest features in their projects. So, if you are going to Eclipse World, make sure you drop by...

We came across this interesting quote in the Eclipse Summit Europe surveys: Ed’s and Rich’s demo of EMF/GMF (domain-specific modeling with the Eclipse Modeling Project) was unbelievable … I couldn’t help having a vision of a cottage where two madly giggling witches dance around a cauldron throwing in OCl, QVT...

I’ll be honest with you: I’m not sure what “World Tour” means. At present, I’m planning this “ Europa” tutorial for EclipseWorld, being held November 6-8, 2007 in Reston, Virginia. Since I started off with honesty, I may as well continue with it: I’ve been struggling to decide what constitutes...

I just registered for Eclipse World. I always enjoy this conference, since I get to actually attend as an attendee, unlike EclipseCon, where I never seem to have time to attend the sessions. btw, if you are planning on going, the early registration deadline is tomorrow, October 19. Also, don’t...

Google has just released a feature in Google Reader that allows you to see how many people have subscribed to a feed. I thought it would be interesting to check out some the RSS feeds at eclipse.org. As a reminder, these are just people using Google Reader so the actual...

SAP made a big Eclipse announcement today at their SAP TechEd in Munich. They announced their intention to open source their memory analyzer at Eclipse. The tool already exists, so more information can be found here. It is great to see SAP making their first code contribution to Eclipse. SAP...