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Something we would like to accomplish during the Europa release is to make it easier for our user community to download Eclipse. The existing download model requires you to start with the SDK and then start adding projects and features. However, for the millions of Eclipse users the SDK is...

Microsoft is hosting the TechEd conference this week. One of the announcements to come out is a new version of Visual Studio, called Visual Studio Shell. Reading some of the coverage, it sounds a lot like Eclipse. In fact, Peter Varholl of Remond Magazine points out that imitation is the...

Stephan Janssen, of Javapolis fame, has started a very cool new web site called Parleys.com. We have been working with Stephan to host some of the EclipseCon 2007 sessions recordings on Parleys. The first one is now available! Go check out Dieter Krachtus’s presentation Eclipse on Swing. I hope over...

I am putting together some stats for the launch of Europa. One thing that always impresses me is the distributed nature of the Eclipse community and specifically the global nature of the Eclipse committer community. For instance, the Europa release includes participation from committers in 19 countries, including Australia, Austria...

Thanks to Roger Dudler we now have a spiffy new Europa graphic. Right now the graphic is linked to our Europa page that features a countdown to June 29, the day of the Europa release. If you would like to help promote the Europa release, we have a ‘ Friends...

It seems that I’ve been reading a lot of “ Ubuntu Experience” blog entries lately. I decided that, with the arrival of my new laptop, I’d do the same. I recently acquired a brand spanking new Dell Latitude D820 laptop. It’s quite nice and is seriously loaded. The installation of...

A few weeks ago, at Eclipse Forum Europe ( EFE), I presented a talk titled “Test First Development Using Eclipse”. I’m doing the talk again, only this time in a webinar format. The webinar runs tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11h00 EDT (15h00 GMT). Register now! I’m not planning on changing any...

Qi Liang has authored an excellent article titled “ Using the BIRT Chart Engine in Your Plug-in” that discusses how you can incorporate BIRT charts into your own applications. This article introduces the basic concepts of BIRT Chart Engine, explains what BIRT Chart Engine is composed of, and illustrates how...

Fairly frequently, I get questions from people asking me just what the heck Eclipse is. It’s difficult to understand what Eclipse is by looking at our website (though that’s something that’s changing—slowly). The problem is that Eclipse is actually pretty hard to define. Most people know Eclipse as a Java...

Europa is fast approaching. To help promote the Europa release, I would like to create a graphic that we can use on eclipse.org and others can use on their web site. My graphic capabilities are very limited at best; in fact my four year olds can now draw better. Therefore...