Blog Posts

    Never Compile Again

    Monday, April 2, 2007 - 13:36 by Wayne Beaton
    I’m up to reason seven in the “ Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse ” posted by Renaud Waldura (my discussion of the previous six reasons can be found here: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , and 6 ). I have to admit that this is one...

    Eclipse is Faster

    Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 16:38 by Wayne Beaton
    I’m up to #6 in the “ Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse ” posted by Renaud Waldura sometime in late 2002/early 2003. Since I’m crossing the halfway mark, I thought I mightlay out the previous reaons five for your review. Eclipse is Free Eclipse is a Platform Eclipse Has Momentum...

    Eclipse Live Beta

    Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 13:55 by Anonymous (not verified)
    We have finally launched a beta of Eclipse Live . The idea of Eclipse Live is to 1) provide a single source for all the multi-media content related to Eclipse, ie podcasts, webinars, screencams, etc. and 2) provide a way for people to identify the great content and share their...

    Mik Kersten discusses Mylar

    Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 14:40 by Wayne Beaton
    In this podcast recorded at EclipseCon 2007, Mik Kersten discusses how a bout with repetitive strain injury ( RSI ) motivated the creation of Mylar . He also provides some insight into how Mylar was/is built and integration of Mylar with Java ( JDT ) and other languages. For those...

    Show Logical Structure

    Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 11:52 by Wayne Beaton
    I love how I continue to discover new things in Eclipse. A few days ago, I stumbled upon “Show Logical Structure” . This is a feature that has been around since the 3.1 days (I believe it was introduced with 3.1M4). It turns the “Variables” view (normally part of the...

    We need help for Summer of Code

    Monday, March 26, 2007 - 14:59 by Wayne Beaton
    We need help with the Google Summer of Code. Desperately. We have almost 100 proposals submitted and we’re desperately short on mentors. If you’re interested in being a Google Summer of Code Eclipse mentor, please let me know (wayne at eclipse dot org). What does being a mentor require? It...