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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...

The coverage of the Europa release has been great. In case you missed it, I thought I would share some of my highlights. Analyst Coverage Cote from Redmonk probably had the best coverage by an analyst. Cote really gets this stuff. Joe Niski from Burton also did a nice overview...

At least one confused member of the Eclipse community spent an uncomfortable night camping outside the Eclipse Foundation offices in hopes of being the first to get a copy of the new fangled Eclipse packages. Unfortunately, this camper didn’t realise that we never use the front door, and it wasn’t...

My name is Wayne and I have a problem: I don’t really get IRC. That’s not to say that I don’t understand the technology. Heck, I even know a bunch of the more basic commands. I just have a really hard time keeping up with the conversations. My day is...

I’m off to Germany next week for a fun-filled week of Eclipse-based excitement. With the arrival of Europa this week, next week is sure to be a great time to out with the people. The first event is a visit on Tuesday evening to the Java User Group Cologne where...

We have added the Europa countdown clock to eclipse.org home page. According to Denis, the plan is to have the downloads live at 9:00amET Friday June 29. Last year we were 6-7 hours past this time, so it will be interesting to see how close we can get this year...

Cote from Redmonk is doing a series of videocasts about some of the Eclipse projects involved in Europa. He is interviewing Eclipse project leaders, as they give a demo of what’s new in their project release. The goal is to combine podcasts and webinars concepts to bring to life what...

Last week Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, wrote a blog post saying that the OSI is going to start being more vocal about software vendors claiming to be open source but were not using an OSI approved license. As a refresher, OSI is the organization that approves...

…I may just lose it. I’ve had this darned picture—taken at JavaOne 2007—on my desk for a little more than a month. I keep looking at it and thinking that I should scan it, put it on my blog and then send the original to the shredder. As I look...

I’ve always wanted to start a blog with that famous line and this recent opinion piece from eWeek, Is Open Source Dying, is a perfect reason. It is clear that the writer is either: 1) Naive about open source software. 2) Writing piffy headlines to get attention. 3) Just got...