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I wrote a while back about life goal #129 and the resulting bug raised against my person. Frankly, the whole process has been very exciting for me, but–alas–we’re getting close to closing this bug.

I had an opportunity today to stop by the bookstore and pick up a copy of the new Eclipse Rich Client Platform by Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux. It occurred to me today as I was looking for the book that there are a lot of titles on there discussing...

I’ve finally managed to post the agenda for the Eclipse in Action day at JavaPolis in Antwerp, Belgium, hosted by the Belgian Java Users Group (BeJUG). The Eclipse Foundation is hosting a Plug-in Bazaar on December 12th, and then Eclipse in Action day on December 13th. At this point, we...

I’m in Miami today. It’s very nice here, though the locals have informed me that “it’s winter”. Thus far, I have resisted an urge to let them know that they don’t know cold. On the flight to Miami, I wanted to work on the EBay RCP application that I’ve been...

Yesterday I was on a panel at the Open Source Business Conference with Eben Moglen, Diane Peters and Jim Harvie. The title of the session was “ GPL 3.0: Directions, Implications, Casualties“, but what it was really about was providing a venue for the Free Software Foundation to talk publicly...

There comes a time in the life of every open source community when they know they’ve made it…that the work they are doing is fundamentally changing the industry and impacting how people look at the development landscape. So when is that moment? Is it when it hits 50 million downloads...

I’ve started working through the list of submissions for EclipseCon 2006. There’s a lot of great stuff there. There’s a tonne of talks and tutorials on the Developer track which is, of course, great. There are a bunch on the User track and I can see about seven on the...

I just cast my vote in the JDJ Readers’ Choice Awards. I think of this as superior to the Peoples’ Choice Awards as there is little chance of running into Paris Hilton at the award ceremony. This is for two very good reasons: (1) Paris Hilton isn’t interested in this...

I sorted it out. Last month, I wrote about some work that I was doing with the EBay SDK and Eclipse RCP. I had a few problems getting the integration to work, but I’ve sorted them out. I demoed it to Ian today and even he thought it looks pretty...

A few days ago, I listed some of the books that we’re going to be giving away at JavaPolis. I just learned that we’re also giving away a whole set of the Addison-Wesley Eclipse Series. I’ll just bet you wish you were going to JavaPolis now. Mmmm… free books…