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I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for a few months and am generally happy with it. It’s not perfect, but it’s very good. I’ve become a bit of a Linux apologist lately. I find myself apologising for the fact that my laptop doesn’t easily connect to external monitors and projectors. I...

Look who’s given Eclipse some love…

Months ago, I started a series based on a 2002 blog posting about Eclipse titled “Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse”. As of July, I’ve managed to get through first eight reasons (the previous entry is here). Today, I’m going to look at reason number nine: Team Development Eclipse is designed...

I’ve posted a podcast that I recorded last week with Alexey Aristov, co-project lead of the proposed Open Financial Market Platform ( OFMP) project. In this podcast, Alexey discusses the history and nature of the project, some of the challenges that lay ahead, and the results of the workshop held...

I am in Portland for the annual GOSCON conference, the government open source conference. I spoke at session this morning on using open source to adopt open standards; I think the session went well. One of the reasons I wanted to come to GOSCON is that I believe the next...

I spoke with Yves Yang today at the Eclipse: Now You Can conference (I think it was a “conference”) in Paris about the eFace product he’s been working on. It appeared on TSS today; you can find the link here. You can find more information here and here. Essentially, eFace...

Earlier this week, I received a copy of the quarterly OSGi newsletter, including an interesting tibit about new members of the OSGi Alliance: In the time since my last e-mail to members, the OSGi Alliance has welcome two new members. One of the, Sun Microsystems, is a previous (and actually...

One of the more interesting conference phenomenons is the informal court. These tend to spontaneously form around the some of our more well-known luminaries. Here’s a picture of Ed Merks holding court in the common area of Eclipse Summit Europe. The group has grown by another three people since I...

The Ingres folks are showing off their Eclipse Data Tools Project ( DTP) integration at Eclipse Summit Europe. The best part is that they’ve presented me with the holy grail: a potentially justifiable reason to get the Eclipse Foundation to buy me a Playstation 3. They’re demonstrating Eclipse, running the...

I think that I’ve mentioned before that I’m excited about the Riena project. So are some other people attending Eclipse Summit Europe. We had a presentation from Alex Ziegler about Riena at the RCP Experience Workshop which was well-received by everybody at the workshop. Alex is the project lead and...