Blog Posts

The response has been great to the Eclipse parties. We are now up to 32 parties around the world. We just added parties in Delft, Netherlands and Munich, Germany. The party in Munich is going to be at the W-JAX conference, which is happening next week. They expect to have...

I’m a pretty interactive guy, so these webinars are pretty hard for me. I thrive on feedback from the audience. Not just questions, but the looks on faces. This sort of information can tell you if you’re reaching them or not. In the webinar format, you just have to hope...

This is pretty exciting news. Motorola is going to throw its resources behind ensuring that there is an Apache-licensed Java ME implementation. And how’s this for a quote from Mark VandenBrink: We see industry fragmentation and proprietary software models as an obstacle to unharnessing the full power of innovation in...

I have been looking around to find references to Eclipse when it was first launched. There is lots of stuff but here are some of the more interesting things: the original press release announcing the eclipse.org consortium thanks to the Wayback machine, the eclipse.org web site, circa Sept. 25, 2001...

I learned how to write software using pair programming and other practices that eventually became known as Extreme Programming. I have to admit that I really miss it as part of my everyday work; unfortunately, I don’t write software nearly as much as I’d like these days. Martin Fowler discusses...

Hobel is having some trouble with Eclipse. In fact, he’s having so much trouble that he’s started a blog on the topic ( eclipse-sucks). While I disagree with his position, he’s obviously having problems hooking himself into the Eclipse world. I’ve been trying to help him out. I even invited...

In a comment to a past blog entry, I was asked today about my Image Viewer plug-in (I blogged about it again here). Specifically, I was asked if the source would be made available. The funny-you-should-ask part is that just today, I spent a little time with the image viewer...

In addition to the Eclipse birthday parties, we are setting up an electronic birthday card and Eclipse Product Wall of Fame. I am hoping this will be a good way for individuals to show their support of Eclipse and to showcase all of the Eclipse based products and services. We...

Josh Reed made it to Antarctica and sent me a picture of his new Eclipse sweater. It is keeping in warm, while sleeping out in -40 degree weather! Josh is keeping a blog about his experiences in Antarctica. It seems like he might be the first Eclipse user at the...

I’ve been meaning to blog about this little feature for a while… The Eclipse Web Tools has a neat little feature in its XML editor. As is expected, if your XML file has a DTD or schema specified, content assist (ctrl-space) will offer suggestions as you type. More interestingly, if...