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Scheduling is hard. I have developed an incredibly deep respect for Richard Gronback. I guess I already had a lot of respect for him anyway, what with the Modeling Project and the GMF thing and all… Scheduling 33 BoFs is hard work. Scheduling 200 sessions must drive you to the...

Today I managed to schedule all but one of the proposed BoFs for EclipseCon 2007. As of about an hour ago, there were 33 proposals. The one that I didn’t schedule asked for a room on Sunday night; as of now, I don’t have any Sunday night rooms to book...

Today, I spend some quality time getting friendly with DocBook and CSS. More specifically, I spent time tuning an XSL stylesheet to customize the way that Eclipse Corner DocBook-structured documents are rendered, and a CSS to customize the way that they’re displayed. In the grand scheme of things, I rate...

Nice to see Ingres announcing a developer kit for Eclipse developers and providing some tight integration with the Data Tools Platform. The DTP project just announced their 1.0 release and it looks like they are getting some nice uptake. Ingres is also going to be a Gold Sponsor at EclipseCon...

The guys at EclipseZone (Alex and Daniel) are going a great series of interviews with some of the different Eclipse Awards nominees. I really enjoy reading each interview; if you haven’t seen them check them out. Also don’t forget to vote for you favourite nominee, deadline is February 16, 2007...

We’ve decided to change things a bit this year with respect to BoF sessions at EclipseCon. In past years, we’ve arranged BoFs on-the-fly while at the conference. Your feedback has let us know that this isn’t what you might call “totally optimal”. Anyway… this year, we’re scheduling them in advance...

Today, we posted “ Unleashing the Power of Refactoring” by Eclipse JDT committer Tobias Widmer. In this article, Tobias sheds light on the services offered by the Eclipse Java Development Tools ( JDT) and the Refactoring Language Toolkit ( LTK) to support automated Java refactorings, explains how these services are...

About 2 years ago NetBeans Evangelist Tim Boudreau did a blog post that lambasted Eclipse. It was so bad, and inaccurate, that he had to take it down; must have been bad day. It seems like Tim has had another bad day, as evident in a response to a blog...

You may have noticed that my last couple of posts introduced some podcasts. We’ve gotten feedback from parts of the community that podcasts are a useful medium for disseminating information, so it’s a natural thing for me to start doing. I thought that I’d get my feet wet by doing...

Earlier today, I spoke with Rich Gronback about the upcoming EclipseCon 2007 conference. Listen to the Podcast here. Richard is the Programme Committee Chair for EclipseCon 2007, PMC Lead for the Modeling Project, and Project Lead for the Graphical Modeling Framework ( GMF) Project.