Wayne Beaton's blog

There are many things that I enjoy in this world. It probably goes without saying that among those topmost enjoyable things is watching my sons pick up the loose puck and make a play for the net. Somewhere close to the top of my list of things that I enjoy...

FOSSLC & FOSS Factory invite you to attend a free mini-workshop about open source software development on the mobile platform, Mobile Embedded Development Conference, in Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) Wednesday February 4th, 2009 from 5:00pm to 10:00pm. Experts in their fields, the speakers will introduce the applications they have developed and...

In this podcast (15:21), Mike Squillace, co-Technical Lead for the ACTF project discusses his EclipseCon 2009 Main stage presentation, Eclipse for All: Doing Accessibility Right in the Framework, the Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project, and accessibility in Eclipse in general. We talk about accessibility in the Eclipse workbench. Mike, who...

Bjorn and I represented the Emerging Technology track on the EclipseCon 2009 Programme Committee. Today, we recorded this short podcast discussing the track and some of the talks that you can expect to find at this year’s EclipseCon. Many (or perhaps most) of the talks on the Emerging Technology track...

In this video recorded at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008, Tom Schindl, new co-lead of the Eclipse Nebula project, discusses the future of the project.

The third edition of “Eclipse Plug-ins” (previously titled “Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins”) by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel is available. Eclipse Plug-ins provides detailed, practical coverage of every aspect of plug-in development, as well as specific, proven solutions for the challenges developers are most likely to encounter. This comprehensive guide...

The Very Early Registration Deadline for EclipseCon 2009 is December 31st. Register today and save some money!

The Eclipse Examples Project has a 0.1 release review scheduled for next Tuesday (December 23). For this review, there are two components: The Eclipse Business Expense Reporting Tool (EBERT) and Image Utilities. I’ll defer discussion of Image Utilities for another day… As the name suggests, EBERT is an application that...

Yesterday, Zhiqiang Qian’s new article titled “ BIRT Extension Mechanism, Part 1: Custom Report Items” went live. The article discusses how you can extend BIRT to support new types of report items (things that you can include in your reports). The example shows how to provide support for rotated text.

I recorded this video with Gunnar discussing the Eclipse CloudFree e-commerce project a Eclipse Summit Europe 2008.