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I mentioned earlier that I have been working with the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework ( ATF). Before today, my experience with JavaScript has been limited, and generally involved a lot of screaming in frustration. This afternoon, I spent some time with the ATF JavaScript debugger. The best part is that...

I subscribe to the EPIC RSS feed that feeds to me the new and updated plugins that are added to EPIC. There seems to be about 2-3 new plugins per day. Lots of interesting stuff being developed in the Eclipse community. Sometimes something new catches my eye. For instance this...

Last week I started playing with the Eclipse Ajax Toolkit Framework ( ATF). Until last week, I had really never looked very hard at Ajax. I’m familiar with the base technologies, and the concepts behind it, but I had never really done anything with it. I figured that tinkering with...

There is a conversation brewing in the blogsphere on the topic of when a company can be called ‘open source’. Nat Torkington of O’Reilly seems to have started the discussion as he attempts to build the agenda for OSCON. Allison Randal and Matt Assay have also chimed in. IMHO, the...

Looks like we have quorum for an EclipseCon blogger party on Sunday night. Due to popular demand we will meet in the Hyatt Lobby bar from 7-9pm. zx, Alex, Pascal, Gunnar, Ian Bull, Neil, Remy, Benjamin and Patrick all said they were interested. Doug Schaefer said he might come late...

Over the last 12 months I continue to be amazed by the investment and adoption of the OSGi standard in the enterprise software world. For instance, IBM hosting Websphere on OSGI, BEA announcing their msa strategy is using OSGi, Spring support for OSGi, JoNas support, and a slew of Apahce...

We just published three new case studies about companies using Eclipse RCP. 1) Proteus who is doing some interesting network management software for the US DoD with RCP. 2) Swiss Rail has developed an RCP application to help manage the data that runs the famous ‘always on-time’ Swiss rail system...

I’ve written about Yoxos before. Yoxos, brought to us by the good people at Innoopract, is one of a handful of Eclipse distributions. They have a pretty cool Ajax-infected website that lets you specify the Eclipse components that you need (which they refer to as a scenario) and then builds...

I’m officially declaring my attempts at keeping Wednesday night EclipseCon 2007 BoF slots open as an abysmal failure; it seems that an awful lot of folks wanted their BoF sessions on the last night. I had originally intended to keep Wednesday night as open as possible so that we could...

For my money, there just hasn’t been enough talk about Mylar lately. And I think I understand why. At least for me, Mylar has become such an integrated part of my workday, that I don’t really think all that much about it. It’s the same for the Java Development Tools...