Mike Milinkovich's blog

    Whirlwind Tour

    Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - 19:42 by Mike Milinkovich
    So I am currently at the Hyatt Regency Burlingame — fondly remembered as the site of our most recent EclipseCon — for the Zend/PHP conference. This is my third conference in eight days. London, Paris and San Francisco in eight days. Remind me to never do that again. But the...

    Bottoms Up

    Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 22:35 by Mike Milinkovich
    The past two days have been both busy and exciting. Today was the Eclipse Members meeting. Yesterday I was in the Board meeting while Ian Skerrett and Skip McGaughey were leading the new members meeting and the Eclipse marketing symposium. The marketing symposium was definitely a big hit with the...

    Welcome Aboard

    Tuesday, September 6, 2005 - 13:20 by Mike Milinkovich
    We’ve had two new people start working at the Eclipse Foundation this week. First is Matt Ward, who in Denis’ words, has “…joined the ranks of co-webmaster/sysadmin/person_to_blame at the Foundation…. Matt comes to us with strong UNIX skills, a great attitude and an impressive beard.” I can definitely vouch for...

    EclipseWorld Wrap-up

    Thursday, September 1, 2005 - 17:13 by Mike Milinkovich
    Just back from EclipseWorld in New York. I think BZ Media did a great job putting together the first Eclipse-specific conference in North America other than EclipseCon. (In Europe, iX has been running for two years.) The program was interesting and the turnout exceeded their expectations. For me, a big...

    Compare and Contrast

    Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 16:05 by Mike Milinkovich
    This week I read two articles which really got me thinking about the value of an agile and community-based development processes. The first was the fact that roughly six weeks after shipping Eclipse 3.1, Eclipse 3.2 M1 is already available. And it is not just a token release. There are...

    Eclipse News Portals

    Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 09:12 by Mike Milinkovich
    I am back from vacation and dealing with the inevitable mound of emails. Sometimes I wonder if vacations are, in fact, worth the agony of returning to work The past few months have been fascinating in terms of watching the sudden explosion in Eclipse-focused web portals and news sources. I...