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Next Wednesday, October 15th at 12:30pm Eastern time I will be giving my first web talk via Eclipse Live. The talk is going to be “A Practitioners Guide to Ecosystem Development”. Consider it a peak into what we at the Eclipse Foundation think about how to build and foster ecosystems...

I’ve been tinkering on-and-off for a couple of years on some Eclipse-based presentation software. My primary motivation is my distrust of existing presentation software. Curiously, I get a new head of steam on the “project” every time PowerPoint or Open Office fries one of my documents. Last week was one...

It is with great pleasure that I welcome Gunnar Wagenknecht to the Technology Project‘s Project Management Committee (PMC). Gunnar’s name is no-doubt familiar to many of you: he is a very active member of the Eclipse Community and a prolific contributor (and, based on the pictures on his blog, he...

Bjorn and guests have been blogging about the results of the recent committer satisfaction survey at Eclipse. I think that the survey itself embodied genius in its simplicity: one question on “…how happy are you with the Foundation’s support of you and your project?” As the Executive Director, I am...

We have what has been referred to as an “ embarrassment of riches” in Eclipse Corner. We have a lot of articles that are either in development, or are ready for publishing. The problem is that we have a bit of a shortage of reviewers and editors. Perhaps one of...

The SWT Graph Source Forge project provides some pretty sophisticated interactive graphical technology for Eclipse RCP-based applications. The sample images shown on the examples page are pretty cool, but the description of the underlying technology seems even cooler. Layered canvases are a natural and very powerful extension to SWT. It’s...

Ingress CAFÉ (Consolidated Application Foundation for Eclipse) was selected as the Best Application Development Tool at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this week. Congratulations!

Dmitry Leskov introduced me to Excelsior JET at JavaOne this year. Excelsior JET 6.5 will enable you to compile your Eclipse RCP application to a native code executable and distribute it without the original class/jar files. My first question, when Dmitry showed me JET in action was whether or not...

I generally enjoy reading Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog. Yesterday his post, Quantity Always Trumps Quality, made me think of two things. First, the thoughts conveyed are exemplified at Eclipse: we value code over specifications; code is written, mistakes are made, lessons are learned, and everything gets better in the...

Try this in Eclipse Ganymede (one of the variants that includes the Java development tools): Copy this text: System.out.println(new Date()); Bring the Package Explorer into focus (make sure that none of the existing projects is highlighted) and select “Paste” from the context menu. JDT will build the project, package, class...