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Eclipse Summit Europe is almost here and I’ve been thinking a lot about the symposia and workshops running on Tuesday, October 9th. More specifically, I’ve been thining about the results. These symposia and workshops offer a great opportunity for like-minded folks to get together and discuss what’s good, what’s bad...

On Monday, I spoke with Christine Mitterbauer about the upcoming “ Integrating Test-Driven Development in the Development Process Symposium” at Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE). Christine, who is a senior software engineer with MicroDoc, is co-leading the symposium with George Mesesan, also from MicroDoc. In the podcast, Christine discusses some of...

Last week at the Eclipse Marketing Symposium, I did a presentation on the results we achieved during the Europa launch. The purpose of the presentation was to share with the community the results of the different programs we put in place during the Europa launch. Measuring the success of a...

I’m not sure if this is diversity at work or not, but have you been watching the Visual Editor Project’s ( VEP) Project’s ve-dev list lately? The project-that-could seems to be gathering steam. There’s not what I would call a huge amount of activity, but there seems to be a...

You’ll notice a change if you subscribe to the podcasts feed off the Eclipse Resources page. I’ve set up a redirect that will point you instead to the podcasts feed on Eclipse Live (which, I hope you will agree is a better place for podcasts anyway). Over the next few...

I was very intrigued to learn about the European Union Public License today. Having a government-drafted and supported open source license is breaking new ground as far as I know. I found in particularly interesting that they drafters selected the Eclipse Public License as one of the licenses they will...

The first top on the Eclipse MLP tour is here in Chicago for the Eclipse Marketing Symposium and Eclipse Members’ Meeting. Yesterday we had a very successful Marketing Symposium and today is the Members’ meeting. We will post the presentations over the next couple of days. The good news for...

In addition to our PDT 1.0 announcement there were two other Eclipse related announcements that I find very interesting. 1) CodeGear has announced their 3rdRails Ruby IDE. Ruby continues to be a hot language and from the initial feedback, CodeGear has done a great job on their support. btw, I...

I hear a lot of good stuff about Eclipse Rich Client Platform ( RCP). I also hear some criticism. Perhaps the most popular criticisms that I’ve heard has to do with the scope of RCP. Some members of the community have the opinion that RCP doesn’t go far enough. It’s...

With a tip of the hat to Nick who is quite a lot better at this than I am, and an apology to Dire Straits… Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it You write your software with the PDT That ain't workin' that's the way you...