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Today, I spend some quality time getting friendly with DocBook and CSS. More specifically, I spent time tuning an XSL stylesheet to customize the way that Eclipse Corner DocBook-structured documents are rendered, and a CSS to customize the way that they’re displayed. In the grand scheme of things, I rate...

We’ve decided to change things a bit this year with respect to BoF sessions at EclipseCon. In past years, we’ve arranged BoFs on-the-fly while at the conference. Your feedback has let us know that this isn’t what you might call “totally optimal”. Anyway… this year, we’re scheduling them in advance...

Today, we posted “ Unleashing the Power of Refactoring” by Eclipse JDT committer Tobias Widmer. In this article, Tobias sheds light on the services offered by the Eclipse Java Development Tools ( JDT) and the Refactoring Language Toolkit ( LTK) to support automated Java refactorings, explains how these services are...

You may have noticed that my last couple of posts introduced some podcasts. We’ve gotten feedback from parts of the community that podcasts are a useful medium for disseminating information, so it’s a natural thing for me to start doing. I thought that I’d get my feet wet by doing...

Earlier today, I spoke with Rich Gronback about the upcoming EclipseCon 2007 conference. Listen to the Podcast here. Richard is the Programme Committee Chair for EclipseCon 2007, PMC Lead for the Modeling Project, and Project Lead for the Graphical Modeling Framework ( GMF) Project.

Yesterday, I sat down with Donald Smith to discuss the Business and Industry Tracks at EclipseCon 2007. Here’s an exerpt from our conversation: “EclipseCon has a reputation as being a hard-core developer conference, and there’s definitely a lot of developers there. But we have a lot of marketing folks, a...

I’ve been looking over the recommended tracks for EclipseCon 2007. Based on what I know of folks like Chris and Alex, their recommended tracks are more-or-less exactly what I’d expect. There is some overlap between their recommendations and mine, so I’m sure to bump into them. Actually, I’m virtually guaranteed...

The Eclipse Nebula project has grown a lot in the last few months and it now includes an impressive collection of widgets, including a slick looking date and time picker. For the uninitiated, Nebula is a project where new widgets that complement SWT are created. Nebula’s CDataTime widget is pretty...

There are a great many features in Eclipse that I take for granted. One is the handy way that the "Add CVS Repository" wizard handles CVS URLs. The wizard is opened from the "CVS Repositories" view, by selecting menu item "New > Repository location…". When you first see the wizard...

I think that everybody agrees: choice is good. And with Eclipse comes lots of choice; just look at Eclipse Plug-in Central (EPIC) (which is pretty much the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Eclipse plug-ins). Given that choice is good, it may seem strange that there are so...