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As Chris pointed out a few days ago, the Eclipse Foundation is participating in Google’s Summer of Code. Philippe Ombredanne is helping me with the administration of the programme and has, quite frankly, been handling the bulk of the heavy lifting (thanks Philippe). We’ve also assembled an impressive list of...

Next week, I’m off to Eclipse Forum Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany. I’m really looking forward to the trip. We’re presenting an “ Eclipse Nite” which will be a combination of a reception and a seminar. That is, we’ll be presenting a few talks, but there will be refreshments. We’re also...

The WebTools team has put together some tutorials on building web services and web services clients with WebTools 1.5. Check ’em out. In a fit of stupidity, I pasted the wrong link above. It should be http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jst/components /ws/1.5M6/tutorials/index.html. It’s correct now.

It seems after EclipseCon, good things start to happen in the Eclipse community. For instance at EclispeCon, I met Matt Ryan from Novel SUSE, he was very interested in raising the awareness of Eclipse in the Suse community. Matt, also talk to a number of other people at EclipseCon and...

Based on feedback from Ed and Erich, I decided to rerecord my screen cam demonstration. In the process, I’ve also changed the title. You can find Test First Develoment using Eclipse on the Evangelism site. This is a recording of a demonstration that I’ve been doing a lot lately; especially...

It seems the Eclipse World 2006 conference program is now available and registration is now open. I am looking forward to attending again this year.

Are you looking for a course on developing plug-ins for Eclipse 3.1? You might take a look at the the downloads page for the Ecesis Project. Here, you’ll find several versions of the plug-in course, as well as one titled “Java Programming with Eclipse”. All the courses are licensed under...

For all you Eclipse enthusiats going to JavaOne, we are organizing a party on Wednesday, May 17, from 7-10pm at the Thirsty Bear brew pub. The Thirsty Bear was the location of the very first Eclipse event at JavaOne 2002, so we thought it was appropriate to return. The also...

We are organizing another webinar with the folks at BZ Media. This time the topic will be ‘ Creating Eclipse Plug-ins‘ and will be held May 23 at 1:00pmET. Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel, authors of the popular book ‘ Eclipse: Building Commerical-Quality Plug-ins‘ will be leading the session. If...

The Eclipse Foundation will have a booth at JavaOne, so I have a number of 1 day passes to the exhibit hall. If you want one of these passes, send me an e-mail (ian at eclipse dot org) and I will send you the secret code to register. fyi, I...