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People often ask us why we have EclipseCon in Santa Clara every year. This is the convention center in Santa Clara: (note the fountains on the left, the palm trees, and the generally warm glow). This is my home in Ottawa (where most Eclipse Foundation employees live): (note the after...

Sam Ramji today announced that MS would be investing in the development of SWT on WPF. This is great news for Eclipse and Microsoft for two reasons: 1) Having more resources to work on SWT, especially with the deep knowledge of WPF, will make Eclipse better on Vista. This will...

Sometimes it feels like I’m stalking Frank Gerhardt. Or maybe I just like listening to German speakers. Whatever the case, it seems that almost every single talk I’ve attended has been presented by Frank, or one of his countrypersons… This afternoon, I’m attending “ Server-Side Eclipse – the dynamic server...

In addition to the Equinox announcement, we did a second press release that I think it is very significant and a great example of open source and open standards working together. EclipseLink has been chosen by Sun to be the reference implementation for JPA 2.0. The Glassfish team has also...

Tonight we announced the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. The winners this year represent a great cross-section of the Eclipse community. In the individual category, Ed Merks, blogger/photographer/modeler extraordinaries won the Top Ambassador Chris Aniszczyk (zx) of PDE fame took the Top Committer Remy Suen, a student at the...

I’ve tinkered with the JFace DataBinding, but haven’t had a chance to really dig into it. So, this afternoon I attended “ Understanding JFace Data Binding“, presented by Boris Bokowski (IBM Rational Software), Michael Scharf (Wind River), and Frank Gerhardt (Gerhardt Informatics). I loved the presentation style. They very likely...

I sat in on Marcel Offermans’, Karl Pauls’ (both from luminis) tutorial titled “ Building Secure OSGi Applications“. Marcel and Karl provided a good incremental discovery approach to the tutorial, starting with the pre-OSGi 4.0 way of managing permission and moving quickly into the state of the art. The take-away...

The news at EclipseCon is something the Eclipse community has been doing for a while but not a lot of people know about it. The press announcement at EclipseCon is our new runtime initiative: the creation of the top-level Eclipse RT project and a new Equinox Community. Those who watch...

I just finished registering for EclipseCon and took a look through the flyers in the registration bag. One thing I noticed is the number of cool giveaways, so as a service to all EclipseCon attendees, here is the unofficial EclipseCon Guide to Free Stuff. AMD is giving away 1GB flash...

Jesper was curious about Subclipse use captured by the Usage Data Collector, so I tweaked my queries to stop obfuscating the Subclipse bundles. The results for Subclipse and Subversive use by 465 users over the past 14 days are shown here. First, the commands: org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.commit (invoked 805 times) org.tigris.subversion.subclipse.ui.update (invoked...