Blog Posts

It seems that I’ve been reading a lot of “ Ubuntu Experience” blog entries lately. I decided that, with the arrival of my new laptop, I’d do the same. I recently acquired a brand spanking new Dell Latitude D820 laptop. It’s quite nice and is seriously loaded. The installation of...

Sunday, May 20th marked my third anniversary as the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. My how time flies. My first inkling that this was going to be a very different job was when the phone rang at home a few days before the announcement went out. Answered by one...

A few weeks ago, at Eclipse Forum Europe ( EFE), I presented a talk titled “Test First Development Using Eclipse”. I’m doing the talk again, only this time in a webinar format. The webinar runs tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11h00 EDT (15h00 GMT). Register now! I’m not planning on changing any...

Qi Liang has authored an excellent article titled “ Using the BIRT Chart Engine in Your Plug-in” that discusses how you can incorporate BIRT charts into your own applications. This article introduces the basic concepts of BIRT Chart Engine, explains what BIRT Chart Engine is composed of, and illustrates how...

Monday was a holiday here in Canada, so this morning has been doing the typical post-long-weekend email cleanup, blog reading and so on. Thanks to Bjorn, I came across this little gem: A cynic rips open source. I always enjoy contrarians, really I do. I’ve even been known to play...

Fairly frequently, I get questions from people asking me just what the heck Eclipse is. It’s difficult to understand what Eclipse is by looking at our website (though that’s something that’s changing—slowly). The problem is that Eclipse is actually pretty hard to define. Most people know Eclipse as a Java...

Europa is fast approaching. To help promote the Europa release, I would like to create a graphic that we can use on eclipse.org and others can use on their web site. My graphic capabilities are very limited at best; in fact my four year olds can now draw better. Therefore...

David Berlind has written a follow-up post to Sun’s JavaOne announcements regarding JavaFX. Basically noting that Sun is going head-to-head with Adobe and MS and that the battle is for RIA style applications for the mobile handset market. David did point out one limiting factor to Sun’s potential success: Sun...

BZ Media, the people that publish SD Times, does an annual Java survey of their readership. Alan Ziechick has published the results of the IDE and Java app server usage questions. Nice to see Eclipse continuing to command a huge lead with 69.6% of the respondents indicating they use Eclipse...

So Bjorn and I just finished our JavaOne talk on Eclipse Europa. Attendance was good, and we had a lot of great questions after the talk. Last night was the Eclipse party, and I got a chance to catch up with a lot of folks that I hadn’t seen in...