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I’ve spent a good chunk of the past few days reviewing the reviews. Ian has blogged several times about our little competition to award Europa reviewers with some Eclipse SWAG and a conference pass (for one lucky winner). I thought that I’d spend a few minutes discussing my selection process...

For the third year, we are holding the Eclipse marketing symposium on Sept. 19 in Chicago; this is the day before the Eclipse Foundation Members’ Meeting. The idea behind the symposium is to provide a venue for the marketing and biz dev professionals an opportunity to share and learn the...

As reported on ZDNet, ‘ EMC woos Eclipse developers with cash prizes‘. EMC just announced their new Eclipse based tools. At the same time they announced a contest with a top prize of $100,000. Welcome EMC to the Eclipse community. Feel free to woo away.

Before the launch of Europa, we started a contest to encourage the Eclipse community to write reviews about projects included in the Europa release. Anyone writing a review would receive an Eclipse shirt and the top 3 reviews would receive extra swag. So far over 50 reviews have been written...

Warning! if you have no experience building plug-ins, this post will probably mean very little to you. A few days ago, I was working with Anton, one of my Google Summer of Code students, trying to figure out how one might implement Eclipse plug-ins using scripts. More specifically, we were...

Mark Dexter has made a series of videos to help you get started with Java development using Eclipse. He’s posted the first video on YouTube. A better quality version of this first lesson, along with another 15 lessons and a companion document have been released on SourceForge.

We have just launched a new version of the EPIC home page. The focus was making it easier to navigate the plug-in catalog and place less emphasis on the news section. We also introduced a new banner, similar to the Eclipse Live style. You might notice too the icons in...

Something that a lot of people don’t understand about Eclipse Java development tools ( JDT) is that the “build” path and the “runtime” classpath are actually two different things. The “build” path, oddly enough, is used by the Java compiler when building a project. If you’re building a plain-old Java...

Registration is now open for Eclipse Summit Europe. There is a limit of 400 attendees, so register now so you won’t be disappointed and save a few Euros on the early registration fees.

The second annual Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) takes place October 9-11, 2007 at Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, which is in the Stuttgart region of Germany. ESE is the Eclipse Foundation’s premier event designed to create opportunities for the European Eclipse community to explore, share, and collaborate on the latest...