Wayne Beaton's blog

Channing Walton is our Eclipse Callisto Great Bugs Competition winner. You can view Channing’s entry into the competition here. Channing’s bug was selected randomly from the set of all nominated great bugs netting him a great “ Eclipse Bike” from the good people down at Pecco’s (here in Ottawa). Apparenly...

Eric Arseneau, a Lead Researcher at Sun Microsystems (and former Smalltalker), has offered to come in an show us a demonstration of the Sun SPOT Wireless Sensor devices on Wednesday morning next week ( October 4, 2006) at 10:00 am. Eric’s main area of research is in the Squawk VM...

During our recent webinar on Eclipse Rich Client Platform, one of the attendees asked this question: If we have some technical issues during RCP development work, where can we post our problems? The answer to this question depends on how you define “issues” and “problems”. If the problem you have...

Jeff McAffer and I presented a webinar yesterday on Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Unfortunately, the playback was interrupted yesterday by a server crash that sent us into the Q&A session a lot sooner than we had expected (and cut off about half of the presentation). If you missed out yesterday...

We finally managed to synch up our schedules after a busy summer so that we could present John Arthorne with his award from the Callisto Great Bugs Competition. The competition was designed to encourage the community to provide great bug reports as part of the drive to the Callisto release...

I delivered a presentation for the Java Metroplex Users Group in Dallas, Texas last week. I think the talk went well; at least a few folks in the audience seemed to indicate that it went well and most people stayed around even after the pizza was gone. Almost everybody in...

During this short talk and demonstration during the Eclipse Tailgate Party at Eclipse World 2006, Ihor Strutynskyj brought up an incredibly important point. Unfortunately, he didn’t make the point as explicitly as I had hoped (I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for him to say...

Donald and I were sitting, comfortable and carefree, in the departures lounge at Ottawa International Airport this past Tuesday as we waited for our flight to Boston to attend Eclipse World 2006. Our comfortable and carefree existence was rudely interrupted by somebody (who I sure is very nice) announcing that...

We just posted a great new tutorial titled “ Building Project Facets” by Konstantin Komissarchik of BEA Systems on Eclipse Corner. If you want to know what facets are, and how you can use them to extend the capabilities of the Web Tools Platform, this tutorial will set you straight...

Yesterday, I submitted my position paper for the Rich Client Applications Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe. My position is basically that Eclipse Rich Client is good, components a la Equinox are king, and that folks should be building domain specific extensible platforms using Eclipse Rich Client technology. To be completely...