Benjamin Cabé's blog

EclipseCon is in about a month, and we are so excited about what’s cooking for M2M this year! Today, we contributed Mihini source code, after an initial review that took longer than what we initally planned, and EclipseCon in Boston will be the first opportunity for you to get a...

When you run a project at Eclipse, you are very likely interested in getting some indicators regarding the health of your community. And as Randall Munroe suggests, maybe these indicators will be a good way for you to extrapolate on when your project will actually rule the world Download stats...

Last year, EclipseCon Europe was the moment when the Eclipse Foundation, together with Eurotech, IBM and Sierra Wireless announced the creation of the M2M Industry Working Group. Over the last 12 months, a great deal of stuff has happened: there are now three projects living under the umbrella of the...

Did you register for the upcoming M2M (Machine-to-Machine) webinars series? In the next few weeks there will be four webinars to give you not only a general introduction to what Machine-to-Machine is, but also highlight how actors of the Eclipse community are working on addressing the challenges associated with M2M...

Koneki released its 0.8 version with Juno, and we plan on graduating with a 1.0 version for Kepler. In order to stabilize our API and improve the overall quality of the product, we thought it would be better if we released a 0.9 in-between. This 0.9 version is scheduled for...

About a month ago, Sierra Wireless proposed a new project under the umbrella of the M2M Industry Working Group that aims at delivering a crucial missing piece to the global architecture of the open source M2M stack this Group is trying to establish. Mihini is a runtime technology that hides...

After the success of Eclipse Party 2011 last year, the Eclipse Foundation, Airbus, Obeo and Sierra Wireless invite you to Eclipse Day Toulouse, on May 24, 2012. This year, we will have a full day event, with a particular focus on two topics for which Eclipse is an ecosystem of...

The IDE for the Lua programming language that is being developed within the Koneki project is getting more and more adoption these days. There are two main segments where Lua is intensively used: embedded platforms (the Lua VM has a very small footprint and is written in pure ANSI C...

In just about 10 days, EclipseCon Europe and its storm of great keynotes, awesome talks, and yummy frosty beverage will be all upon its lucky participants. This year, two great programming contests will allow you to have fun doing what most of you do best: write code! In this post...

If you are running Chrome, or Firefox with the GreaseMonkey plug-in, then you may want to install this very simple extension that will detect when an Eclipse bug is mentioned in a commit message displayed in the git.eclipse.org web frontend. You will end up with clickable links for every “bug...