Wayne Beaton's blog

It seems that about half of those of us who have opted to submit data gathered by the Usage Data Collector were working this weekend. Working hard it seems: there seems to be, on average, more events gathered per user working on the weekend (there was a bit of a...

I’ve been collecting my own usage data—along with usage data from several foundation employees and some other volunteers—using the Usage Data Collector (UDC) for quite some time now, so we already have several months’ worth of data. Recently more members of the community have picked up the EPP builds that...

I’m looking forward to the EclipseCon keynotes this year. I’ve only read a few things from Cory Doctorow, but I’ve really enjoyed those few things (take a gander at this bit of work if you want a taste). I hear that he’s a pretty entertaining presenter. I’m also very interested...

Last week, I quietly rolled out an addition to Eclipse Corner that shows the Eclipse projects and releases that an article is compatible with. The change also provides, when appropriate, a link to Bugzilla entries concerned with the article (so you can more easily make comments or suggest corrections for...

It’s pronounced “eep!”, as in “meep, meep”, the sound that the roadrunner makes. The Eclipse Examples Project (EEP!) proposal is live and is looking for feedback and input. The idea behind the project is to provide a home for examples of applications, plug-ins, etc. built using Eclipse technology. We’ve already...

The BoF submissions for EclipseCon 2008 are starting to pile up. You can view them here. Sadly, none of them have descriptions that rival the Mylyn one in comedic value, but there’s still time. In terms of popularity, it seems that the Mega Modeling Mania BoF is the current front...

I think that I may have had something to do with this… A few months back, I made a crack to Denis that it’d only be a matter of time before somebody submitted Klingon translations for Eclipse. Imagine that, Eclipse in Klingon… Anyway, Klingon is a featured language on Babel...

I’ve started to go through some of the BoF submissions for EclipseCon, and came across this gem: Mylyn Bashing, Brainstorming and Beer BOF On Mylyn we typically perform UI reviews on conference calls and bug reports. This one will be a little different. As the Mylyn committers present the key...

Mark Dexter’s done it again. If you’re new to the Eclipse Workbench and need a tour, take a look here. For the uninitiated, the workbench is the focal point of an IDE built on Eclipse. If you’re thinking, for example, of using the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers download from...

Last week, I successfully fixed the Ubuntu 7.10 installation my laptop (a Dell D820). I had been experiencing several bizarre problems; most of them unquantifiable. It just didn’t work “right”. One of the more quantifiable problems was some Java instability. Java applications (at least while running the Sun JVM) just...