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It’s a pretty staggering number when you think about it. Feedback from attendees of webinars shows that some 99% find them to be a worthwhile way to spend part of your day. If you haven’t tapped into this valuable resource, you should. To see the full schedule of upcoming webinars...

I get a lot of offers to speak at various events throughout the world. Far more than I can attend myself. For those events that I am unable to attend, I try to find somebody (preferably from the local area) to attend in my place. I have a pretty good...

So the staff of your friendly neighbourhood Eclipse Foundation honoured U.S. Thanksgiving last week with an afternoon of bowling. (That would be 5-pin to those not from Canada.) It was sort of like an Eclipse DemoCamp for the athletically challenged. Apparently my misspent youth was worth something after all. I...

Thanks to everyone who attended the Ottawa DemoCamp and especially the presenters. It was great to see demos of products I had not seen before, include Flex Builder, Embarcadaro’s ER Studio and Protecode’s upcoming new product. There are a lot more DemoCamps in the next couple of weeks, so if...

… EclipseCon 2008 Program Committee. I spent a couple of hours yesterday looking through the EclipseCon talk submissions, and I would definitely not want to be in charge of selecting talks. There are simply too many good ones. An embarrassment of riches. A cornucopia of technical info. 230 long talk...

People often approach the Eclipse Foundation to buy Eclipse SWAG, so we are please to announce the grand opening of the Eclipse Store. Just in time for Black Friday, you can now buy an Eclipse shirt or an Eclipse hoodie for that special someone in your life. What could be...

As some have reported, OS Summit Asia has been postponed. What hasn’t been so clear is why? The simple reason is that not enough people had registered for the conference. Hosting a conference that no one attends, is just not a good way to host a conference. The reason why...

I’ve managed to pick up some extra responsibilities for the upcoming JavaPolis 2007 conference in Antwerp, Belgium. In addition to the talk on Mylyn that I’ve been planning to do for a while now, I’ve recently been coerced (in a relatively nice way) into delivering a three hour “IDEs in...

Andrew Overholt from the Fedora team sent Wayne and myself a USBkey with the Fedora 8 Developer Spin. This morning I decided to take it for a spin. First some disclaimers, 1) I am ashamed to say that I have never installed Linux on my machine. Basically, I use the...

The submission deadline for EclipseCon talk proposals is November 19th. Get your proposal in today!