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I managed to speed up my puzzle generation algorithm by a few orders of magnitude. In the process, I got a free solver out of it. The Sudoku game is coming along quite nicely; not bad for about three days worth of actual effort. We’ve also wrapped up the plug-in...

There are a number of Eclipse related webinars that I wanted to point out. We are getting really good response to these webinars, so I hope to do more throughout the summer. We just finished running a webinar with BZ Media called ‘Creating Eclipse Plug-ings’. Over 300 people attended and...

Cliff Liang has translated “ A Shape Diagram Editor” into Chinese. You can read it here (assuming you can read Chinese).

It’s only every once in a while that I really get to geek out and use some of that computer science stuff I learned in university. Frankly, I quite enjoy these little opportunities (disturbingly, most of these opportunities have something to do with combinatorics and recurrence equations). Yesterday, I wrote...

At JavaOne, I met John Rizzo from JavaBlackBelt and he mentioned to me that they had an Eclipse RCP exam. JavaBlackBelt uses a community based approach for developing certification exams of various Java related technology. It looks like an interesting model for creating certifications. The Eclipse RCP exam is still...

Like Steve O’Grady, fishing for me has never been about just catching fish. In fact, if we do manage to catch fish, that’s just the icing on the cake. Enjoying the scenery and some good times are the primary motivations. And although the scenery where we were cannot compare with...

The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming ( ECOOP) 2006 is being held in Nantes, France from July 3rd to 7th. Eclipse is going to be there in full force. The Eclipse Technology Exchange (eTX) Workshop will be held on July 4th. The goal of the eTX workshop is to create...

I just posted a presentation by Chris Laffra that steps through the new and noteworthy with Eclipse 3.2. You can find the presentation here. You can get Eclipse 3.2 here. And, of course, the RC3 release of Callisto is available for download and testing.

Eclipse has been very successful in developing a common platform for development tools integration. In fact, I believe one of the strengths of Eclipse is the large ecosystems of vendors, individuals and organizations that are building on top of the Eclipse platform. However, Eclipse is not unique in creating this...

Over the past few months, I’ve heard a lot of folks talk about how many ways the ten Callisto projects can be combined. In all cases, the concensus seems to be that there are 10! (ten factorial) combinations. Or at least about that many. That’s 3,628,800 combinations. Wow! Except that...