Mike Milinkovich's blog

One of our challenges at the Eclipse Foundation is understanding how and what people are using Eclipse. Millions of people come to our web site to download the various projects, find different Eclipse based plug-ins (open source and commercial) and use them to create amazing software. If we can gain...

I just recently agreed to be a speaker at Joel Spolsky‘s Business of Software conference in September. I guess it is in some way returning a favor, as Joel gave a very memorable keynote at EclipseCon 2006. The talk is going to be focused on providing a practitioner’s guide to...

I have moved my blogging activities over the the Eclipse blog site. See you over there.

By far and away, my favourite quote from Cory Doctorow‘s talk at EclipseCon was: “Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard.” Those truly are words to live by. Remember that as I walk through some thoughts on Eclipse and our community’s strategy. Tony Baer, who writes OnStrategies has been an avid...

We announced the results of the 2008 board elections earlier today. The turnout this year was a modest improvement over last year. There were 148 committer votes cast, and 29 Add-In Provider votes. For 2008 there were 5 spots for each class of elected representative. This means that the Add-In...

The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. Sound familiar? Well Denis’ new toys arrived in the mail today. You see, Denis is 100% toy-focused. When he is not riding his snow machine (that Canadian for snowmobile) or his 4-wheeler (Canadian for ATV), Denis like...

Just a reminder to all you folks out there that today is the last day for EclipseCon 2008 early registrations. EclipseCon 2008 is shaping up to be the best EclipseCon ever. More talks, more tracks, Developer Days, hackathons, cool keynotes…. If you are interested in Eclipse technologies for tools, frameworks...

Could one of our EclipseCon keynoters have a secret 8 year plan in the works? To be specific here I am not talking about Cory Doctorow, because, well, as far as I can tell Cory’s career path is to be Cory Doctorow. And I’m not talking about Sam Ramji although...

Well, maybe not quite “Super” The nominations for the Eclipse Foundation Board of Director elections are now posted. This is a great collection of nominees. I want to personally thank each of them for putting their names forward. Given the candidates, the Eclipse community will be well served by any...

As I recall (being on the road again), our certificate of incorporation is dated January 28, 2004. Happy 4th birthday Eclipse Foundation! It has certainly been quite a ride, hasn’t it? Hmmm…We will have to think of some party action for the 5th birthday next year.