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The PHP Development Tools ( PDT) Project has been hard at work producing the next version of some excellent tools for building PHP applications. I have been using the 1.0M1 release (the PDT downloads page points to their update site) for a few weeks now and am really impressed. Here’s...

It’s long past time to continue on a path I started down some time ago. About four years ago, Renaud Waldura posted a blog entry titled “Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse”. A few months back, I started reviewing the ten reasons to see what’s changed. My previous entries are here...

Apparently, there is some confusion about the name of the “ Mylyn” project. Let me try and clear it up. This is “Our Lynn”, the Eclipse Foundation’s Marketing Events Manager. This is “Mylyn”, the Task-Focused UI for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. Any questions?

I spoke last Thursday at the Java Forum Stuttgart. This is a show that I really enjoy attending; the organization is great, the people are very nice, and Stuttgart is a nice city. I delivered two talks: one on Eclipse RCP and one on Mylyn. The RCP talk went well...

Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of hosting in Ottawa Kazumi Ohgata and Motoki Mori from NEC Soft in Japan. NEC Soft’s VALWAY Technology Center is developing an interesting tool to make it easier to build RCP applications, called Jalcedo. During our meeting we discussed the market for RCP tools...

It is a big deal to me when we get a cover story in a magazine. Therefore, I was thrilled to find out that Dr Dobb’s has Eclipse Europa : Eureka! as its August cover. Congratulations to the Eclipse community; another great recognition for the release.

I reported a little while ago about my experiences with Ubuntu. It’s time for a quick update. The short version is that I like it. I like the way that it looks and feel. I even like the OpenOffice software, though it does bizarre things once in a while (need...

The deadline for the OS Summit Asia Call for Papers is next Friday, July 13. If you are thinking of submitting a proposal, now is the time to do it. I also want to encourage people in China, Japan, Korea and greater Asia to submit papers. An important goal of...

Eclipse Blogs does have an RSS feed. Unfortunately it’s hidden. I’ll try to resolve this next week by adding a fancy icons somewhere on the template (somehow, I managed to assume ownership of this sort of thing). In the meantime, tack “/feed” on the end of the URL for the...

My laptop took a tumble this morning. They guy sitting next to me on the flight jumped up, ripped open the hatch on the overhead bins and then jumped out of the way as my laptop (in the bag) tumbled down to the floor. It hit the seat on the...