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SD Times just did a special report titled ‘ Can Linux Get a Lift from Eclipse‘. Hmm, not sure about the title but the report is pretty decent and the general conclusion is that Eclipse is ideally suited for cross platform development; native, hard core Linux developers will probably stay...

SAP is holding their big developer conference this week in Las Vegas. Seems like SAP is showing off some cool new tools based on Eclipse. Jeff Nolan has an interesting recap of the executive keynote and the demo of SAP’s Composition Environment, which is based on Eclipse. Jeff also discussed...

While communicating with a colleague today, I was reminded today about how painful explaining equals() and hashcode() to new Java developers can be. What’s particularly frustrating is that it’s not really a Java issue. I remember learning all about the ins and outs of equality and hash in Smalltalk, and...

As Wayne pointed out, RAP is hot. However, PDT is also generating a lot of attention. We just finished a webinar on PDT 1.0 and had over 170 attendees; a record for our Eclipse Live webinar series. In case you missed it, you can playback the recording here. I also...

Seems like MLP’s are spreading thru the software industry. Sun has their MLP Jonathan, Eclipse has MLP Java and now the Rails guys are giving away MLP’s for their Rails Rumble. Of course being the hip Rails guys, their pony has ‘pony power’.

This morning, when I arrived at the office, a copy of the new Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java™ Web Applications book was sitting on my desk. It’s always fun to get new books (while I’m excited about this, I’m not nearly as excited as my friend Jim is about...

I decided to take podcasting in a new direction and interview myself. Okay, it’s not really an interview; it’s more like 15 minutes of me rambling on about the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, the Eclipse Summer of Code project, and cross-over between the two. I have a couple...

I’ve been hinting at this project for a few weeks now, and I’m glad to see the proposal finally posted. The “Riena” project intends to produce an Über Rich Client Platform. I found out about this project only a week or so after I agreed to co-host the upcoming “RCP...

Last Wednesday, Anne (representing the EMO) announced the graduation review of the Rich Ajax Platform ( RAP) project and created Bug 204737 for comments. The graduation review itself will be held on October 3rd, but the community has already started voting. I don’t know if this is unheard of, but...

After carefully editing out the “ Oprah Incident“, I’ve posted a new podcast of my recent discussion with Stephan Wilzcek about the Open Financial Market Platform Workshop: Services for a Banking Platform workshop that he is co-hosting at Eclipse Summit Europe. The podcast should show up on EclipseLive (and the...