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We are starting to organize a tailgate party to help kick-off Eclipse World. The idea is to have an informal gathering, where people can meet and talk. Wayne did something similar in France at ECOOP, called the Eclipse Bistro. Keeping with the theme of being culturally sensitive, we thought a...

So I’m here at OSCON and having a great time. (If anyone wants to get together here, please call my cell phone 613-220-3223). During Tim O’Reilly’s keynote he talked about a bunch of cool technologies that he believes are shaping the future of the Web. One that he singled out...

When you delete a file in Eclipse, it is deleted from the CVS repository when you commit the change (by committing the folder). But CVS doesn’t destroy the file, it puts it in the ‘attic’. If you ever need to get that file back, you can. From the context menu...

I am in Portland this week for OSCON. Eclipse has a booth in the .org pavilion and I also hope to catch a few sessions. This afternoon I hope to sit in on Doc Searls tutorial ‘Open Source Marketing: How to Market to People Who Hate Marketing’. I am looking...

The final is a series of 3 podcast is now available. In this podcast Dana Garner speaks with two smaller ISVs, Genuitec and Lombardi and talks about how they benefit from using Eclipse. Podcast 1: Wall Street Analyst Talks about the Effect of Eclipse Podcast 2: The Benefits of Eclipse...

I decided to update the screen cam that demonstrates how to download and install Eclipse (I made the old one before the Eclipse 3.2 release). The new version replaces the old version, so the old link still works. I’ve decided to tinker with the screen size a little with this...

In my role, I spend quite a bit of time following the various companies and products building on top of the Eclipse platform. That could probably become a full-time job if I let it. There is an enormous amount of energy in the Eclipse ecosystem. But every once in a...

Sometimes I wonder if I was German in a previous life. I certainly spend a lot of time there, and I always enjoy myself. Seriously, any country that firmly believes that beer and business mix is my kind of place. Two weeks ago I was lucky enough to be in...

I was never happy with how tightly coupled my image viewer is to the resources API. It seems to me that an image viewer is a pretty handy, general-purpose thing. The initial implementation can display images contained in files. But images come from other places. Items in an auction have...

OK, I am a sucker for a magazine that does a cover story on Eclipse. Last night I was in my neighbourhood magazine shop, looking through some of the computer magazines. I pulled out a magazine called PHP Architect and what do I find an Eclipse cover story. Also a...