Blog Posts

Jeff McAffer and I presented a webinar yesterday on Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Unfortunately, the playback was interrupted yesterday by a server crash that sent us into the Q&A session a lot sooner than we had expected (and cut off about half of the presentation). If you missed out yesterday...

We finally managed to synch up our schedules after a busy summer so that we could present John Arthorne with his award from the Callisto Great Bugs Competition. The competition was designed to encourage the community to provide great bug reports as part of the drive to the Callisto release...

October is turning out to be a good month for Eclipse events in Europe. The Eclipse Foundation is organizing the Eclipse Summit Europe in Germany. I believe there are still spots open, if you are interested in attending. There is also an Eclipse event on Paris, France on October 13...

So one of the very common rants around the office here at the Eclipse Foundation is Denis (aka Webmaster) saying “ …there you guys go again with that Smalltalk this, Smalltalk that stuff! Arrggghhhhh!” He regularly mocks us that every lunch conversation will hit upon Smalltalk within 10 minutes, no...

I delivered a presentation for the Java Metroplex Users Group in Dallas, Texas last week. I think the talk went well; at least a few folks in the audience seemed to indicate that it went well and most people stayed around even after the pizza was gone. Almost everybody in...

Check out this IDE straw poll on tezaa. Although it is admittedly unscientific, I’m pretty amazed to see Eclipse out ahead of Visual Studio. Neat. P.S. Anyone wanna take a bet on how long it takes the Sun guys to astroturf this?

We are organizing another series of E clipse webinars. During Callisto, we ran a series of three webinars and got good response. This time we are featuring CDT, Mylar and Rich AJAX Platform (RAP). These webinars should be a good way to get a better understanding of these projects. Go...

SAP TechEd is going on this week in Las Vegas, so there seems to be more developer oriented news about SAP this week. Ryan Lowe is at SAP TechEd doing some presentations on RadRails. In Ryan’s blog he points out that SAP has introduced a new S AP Scripting Language...

Just came across an intersting blog entry from David Beers. He makes a point that a MS concept called Composite UI Application Block (CAB) is very similar to Eclipse RCP. However, for me his comment: What is funny is that RCP and CAB are obviously “big news” in their respective...

During this short talk and demonstration during the Eclipse Tailgate Party at Eclipse World 2006, Ihor Strutynskyj brought up an incredibly important point. Unfortunately, he didn’t make the point as explicitly as I had hoped (I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for him to say...