Blog Posts

I just created bug 239808, Eclipse IDE for Education, as a proposal for a new component in the SOC project. Please add your comments on the bug. While you’re at it, we’re looking for volunteers… The proposal originates from the need to provide a streamlined environment to help first-year undergraduate-level...

There’s something about the Java Forum Stuttgart conference that I really like. The conference is a little on the large size (I believe that I heard that there were 1,200 attendees) which gives the exhibit area a really busy feel. Good busy. As a speaker, I can’t say enough about...

Congratulations to Mik Kersten for being inducted into the JavaOne Java Rock Star program. The Java Rock Stars are the top speakers, as voted by the attendees, at JavaOne. Mik session was an introduction to Eclipse Mylyn and it seems like he and Mylyn were a great hit. Mik is...

If you have a question about some Eclipse project, the newsgroups are your best bet. If you’re not sure what group is appropriate for your question, post it on newcomer. Posters to newcomer are often redirected to other newsgroups, but newcomer is a good starting point since a lot of...

Or I was going titled this blog ‘The GPL is Not a Solution for World Peace’ but I didn’t. Last week’s big news was that the Nokia is going to buy outright Symbian and then open source the Symbian operating system under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) and start the...

One of the more exciting things I get to do when I visit Germany is attend one of Ralph’s many Stammtisches (or is that Stammtischae?) For the uninitiated, Stammtisch translates roughly into “regular’s table”. Ralph’s incarnation of the tradition brings members of the Eclipse community together to socialize and network...

Some of you might have noticed that when Ganymede was first launched yesterday, the eclipse.org website was reeeaaallllyyyy slow for a little while. By way of explanation, I offer the following: But more seriously, many thanks to Denis, Matt, Nathan and Karl for all of their work in getting our...

En développant vos plug-ins, vous avez peut-être un jour été confronté à une erreur, à première vue obscure, due à une directive singleton soit disant manquante… En effet, le PDE lève une erreur lorsqu’un plug-in qui n’est pas “ singleton” souhaite définir des extensions ou des points d’extension. Pourquoi, et...

As we all know Ganymede is out. Congrats to everyone involved. I’ve been following the Ganymede buzz on twitter via summize; lots of positive chatter. It looks like @lylo can claim credit for the first tweet about getting Ganymede but I am impressed that @llun did a blog post about...

The Eclipse Day at the Googleplex was a great success. Around 100 individuals attended and all the feedback I received was very positive. The speakers were all top notch and there were lots of insightful questions from the audience. It was a great combination! I especially want to thank Google...