Wayne Beaton's blog

I’ve finally made it to JavaOne. It’s my first time here and I have to admit that I’m a little overwhelmed. It’s a huge conference. Today, the title of my blog is not an insane attempt to attract more traffic… I was working the Eclipse Foundation booth earlier today and...

I’m planning to be at JavaOne this week, just not all week. I spent a lot of time last week visiting folks in Europe and any plans of spending the following week in San Francisco would likely result in divorce papers being served. It’s just better this way for everybody...

I was interviewed twice yesterday while in Paris. One was with Olivier Rafal, a well-known French IT Journalist, and the other was a video interview by Didier Gerard who posts his interviews on TV4IT. The second one worries me a little primarily because it’s yet another opportunity to hear my...

I learned an important lesson yesterday. Last night, I took a walk down Rue St. Denis in Paris and had a reasonably nice dinner at one of the many sandwich stands that litter the street. As I munched on my food, it occurred to me that I only had about...

I spoke this morning at Club Java in Paris. I’m on my way home from Eclipse Forum Europe and, of course, couldn’t pass up such a great opportunity to speak to a developer community (I’ve been speaking at a lot of Java User Group meetings lately). Vlad, who organized my...

We had an incredible jump in the number of student proposals for Eclipse projects in Google’s Summer of Code. On Saturday, we had 12 proposals. Today we have 77! Many of the proposals are interesting. It seems that there is a disportionate number of people who are interested in providing...

I just noticed after a cursory review that six of the ten nominations for the JAX Innovation Award 2006 have something to do with Eclipse. Try as I might, I can’t figure out a reasonable way to put “Swing” in the title of this…

I’ve been working on a new RCP application over these past few weeks. The effort has pushed me to look at a few areas inside Eclipse that I haven’t previously explored. I rely heavily on calendar and task management software to manage my many different roles and responsibilities. Unfortunately, all...

Curiously, I seem to get about twice as many hits on my blog whenever I include the word “Swing” in the title. I wonder why that is?

I’ve been using the Visual Editor to build some user interfaces for an Eclipse application that I’m building. As a distraction, I thought it might be fun to spend a few minutes cobbling together a Swing JFrame (okay, maybe “fun” isn’t the right word). Below is what it looks like...