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Chris took me to task after this posting, exposing an important part of the Eclipse Corner publishing process: if things seem to be stalled, poke me (either directly or with a bugzilla comment). Sometimes the process of getting an article published on Eclipse Corner is very time consuming. It all...

Over the last year, the Phoenix project has worked to improve the eclipse.org web site and I think we have made some substantial progress; remember the bad old days of frames :-). The next step is to make it easier for the average user to come to eclipse.org and find...

One of the great things about my job is that it doesn’t really matter where I actually physically work (at least part of the time). I took the opportunity yesterday to spend a few hours watching my kids at hockey camp. It was a little weird sitting in the freezing...

I know that I found this a little weird at first, so I can completely understand the confusion around how we use the Eclipse bug system. To summarize: we use it for almost everything. Some projects have discussions entirely captured in the bug tracking system; many of these bugs are...

I would like to move my blog off of blogger.com. Basically, I am getting tired of the stale set of features and lately it seems to be pretty unreliable. It really seems like Google has shown limited interest in advancing blogger? Therefore, I want to move but the question is...

It is interesting to ssee a recent podcast on Port25 (the Microsoft OS Labs site) about Teamprise‘s product that allows Eclipse to access MS Team Foundation Server. I’ve been watching Teamprise for a couple of months and it is great to see them get some exposure from Microsoft.

I use web tools for all my XML editing needs (which, frankly, are many). One feature that I really love is the way that code complete works based on the current contents of the document. If I’ve embedded a element inside a element, the next time I’m in...

We are starting to organize a tailgate party to help kick-off Eclipse World. The idea is to have an informal gathering, where people can meet and talk. Wayne did something similar in France at ECOOP, called the Eclipse Bistro. Keeping with the theme of being culturally sensitive, we thought a...

When you delete a file in Eclipse, it is deleted from the CVS repository when you commit the change (by committing the folder). But CVS doesn’t destroy the file, it puts it in the ‘attic’. If you ever need to get that file back, you can. From the context menu...

I am in Portland this week for OSCON. Eclipse has a booth in the .org pavilion and I also hope to catch a few sessions. This afternoon I hope to sit in on Doc Searls tutorial ‘Open Source Marketing: How to Market to People Who Hate Marketing’. I am looking...