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One of our challenges at the Eclipse Foundation is understanding how and what people are using Eclipse. Millions of people come to our web site to download the various projects, find different Eclipse based plug-ins (open source and commercial) and use them to create amazing software. If we can gain...

I just recently agreed to be a speaker at Joel Spolsky‘s Business of Software conference in September. I guess it is in some way returning a favor, as Joel gave a very memorable keynote at EclipseCon 2006. The talk is going to be focused on providing a practitioner’s guide to...

I’ve been hacking over the last couple of days on an update to the Understanding Layouts in SWT (the original is here). I’ve had my eye on updating this article for a while, but have been skittish about tackling it because of all the screenshots. Bug 221251 forced me to...

I sat in on the “Modeling the Workbench” breakout session at the E4 Summit. Before I go too far, it’s worth pointing out that there is a lot of activity going on here and I’m only able to capture some small part of it. The information that I’m capturing is...

After the coffee break, we had a discussion of making resources available for the E4 effort. Jochen Krause (RT Project Lead, RAP Project Lead) from Innoopract, the major contributor to Eclipse RAP, is dedicating 3-4 developers to the E4 effort. Innoopract is particularly interested in working toward better Eclipse integration...

I’m at the E4 Summit this morning. I’m completely surrounded by Germans (which is a Good Thing™). To my front is Boris Bokowski of the Platform team (who actually lives in Ottawa). To my right is Jochen Krause from RAP. Behind me is Christian Campo from Riena and Michael Scharf...

The Eclipse booth at JavaOne is being hosted this year (as it is normally hosted) by a broad cast of Eclipse committers, representatives from member companies, and other generally-knowledgeable people. Yesterday, some of the folks from nexB hung out at the booth, answering questions about Equinox and being all-around great...

JavaOne is not what you might call my favourite show. This sign about sums it up for me. How welcoming is that? It’s “Java + You”, but “Do Not Enter”. Let the lovefest begin. Did I mention the beanbag chairs? The keynote this morning was uninspiring. With Java FX we...

We’re mixing things up a little for Eclipse Nite at JAX 2008 tonight. I turns out that the original room is just a little too close to a live band, so we’re moving across the building to room 6A. We’ll only be in room 6A for a few minutes; we’re...