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I have finally made the move off blogger.com. Most people recommended that I move to wordpress, so here I am. My new blog url is ianskerrett.wordpress.com and my feed stays the same at http://feeds.feedburner.com/IanSkerrett. The move was pretty painless. WordPress has a cool utility for importing all of my blogger.com...

Donald and I were sitting, comfortable and carefree, in the departures lounge at Ottawa International Airport this past Tuesday as we waited for our flight to Boston to attend Eclipse World 2006. Our comfortable and carefree existence was rudely interrupted by somebody (who I sure is very nice) announcing that...

The always insightful James Governor just had an interesting post about Adobe aquiring a company that builds an Eclipse-based Javascript editor. He made an off-the-cuff comment that building Eclipse based software makes M&A a lot easier. You know I think James has a point but I would also add, building...

I have just arrived at Eclipse World in Boston. The tutorials are full and there seems to be a good buzz. If you are at the conference or just located in Boston, please drop by our party tonight and introduce yourself. I also noticed a number of companies are issuing...

Last year, you might recall we had the Million Download Challenge to help celebrate the 3.1 release. This year, due to the denial of service attach during the 3.1 release and Denis’s focus on keeping the web site up and running during the Callisto release, we decided not to run...

We have recently completed the second annual survey of the Eclipse user community. This is a study conducted by Evans Data and is sponsored by the Eclipse Foundation and some member companies. Although most of the study is only available to the sponsored companies, I have posted a small subset...

One of the most frequent questions that I get asked is “How many Eclipse users are there?” Unfortunately, this is not an easy question to answer for an open source community. Well, IDC has just made available a new research report that estimates there to be 2.27 million Eclipse users...

John Cunningham at Band XI has been working with the US Army on a very cool application based on Equinox. The application, called Cyrano, allows the National Guard to use hand-held computers to monitor sensors for nerve agents, cyanide, radiation and other nasty things. The US National Guard used it...

We just posted a great new tutorial titled “ Building Project Facets” by Konstantin Komissarchik of BEA Systems on Eclipse Corner. If you want to know what facets are, and how you can use them to extend the capabilities of the Web Tools Platform, this tutorial will set you straight...

Yesterday, I submitted my position paper for the Rich Client Applications Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe. My position is basically that Eclipse Rich Client is good, components a la Equinox are king, and that folks should be building domain specific extensible platforms using Eclipse Rich Client technology. To be completely...