Wayne Beaton's blog

I’m up to #6 in the “ Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse” posted by Renaud Waldura sometime in late 2002/early 2003. Since I’m crossing the halfway mark, I thought I mightlay out the previous reaons five for your review. Eclipse is Free Eclipse is a Platform Eclipse Has Momentum Eclipse...

In this podcast recorded at EclipseCon 2007, Mik Kersten discusses how a bout with repetitive strain injury ( RSI) motivated the creation of Mylar. He also provides some insight into how Mylar was/is built and integration of Mylar with Java ( JDT) and other languages. For those of you who...

I love how I continue to discover new things in Eclipse. A few days ago, I stumbled upon “Show Logical Structure” . This is a feature that has been around since the 3.1 days (I believe it was introduced with 3.1M4). It turns the “Variables” view (normally part of the...

We need help with the Google Summer of Code. Desperately. We have almost 100 proposals submitted and we’re desperately short on mentors. If you’re interested in being a Google Summer of Code Eclipse mentor, please let me know (wayne at eclipse dot org). What does being a mentor require? It...

I just posted a new podcast. In this podcast, Benjamin Pasero, technical lead on the RSSOwl 1.0 project and self-described “significant contributor” to the RSSOwl 2.0 project discusses—among other things—the decision to adopt Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) as a basis for the new version. This was recorded at the...

I spoke with Bob Goodman, Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) Project Lead, at EclipseCon about the ATF project. During this conversation, Bob told me about all the great features alredy available in ATF and spent some time looking into the future. You can find the podcast here, or pick up the...

The student application deadline is approaching quickly. March 26 is only days away. Thus far, we’ve received 27 applications for Summer of Code projects. Frankly, there aren’t very many good ones. This is good news for students because it means that there will a really good chance that you’ll be...

It’s time to continue with my ongoing series based on a list of “ Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse” crafted in the Eclipse 2.0 timeframe. Before we get to reason #5, I have to admit that I’ve been carefully referring to the “Eclipse 2.0 timeframe” because I couldn’t remember precisely...

Check out this screenshot of SWT running the Windows Vista calendar control. I like what they’ve done; clearly Microsoft has done their homework. The best part is that with SWT, you can use this widget today.

Every once in a while, I review the SWT snippets. These are available both through the SWT project website and directly from the CVS server. Today, I updated the project from CVS and started looking through the additions. My usual process is to start with the highest numbered snippet and...