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Archive for November, 2005

How do you misspell Eclipse?

Posted in Uncategorized on November 30th, 2005 | 2 Comments »

I misspell Eclipse about 10 times a day. Most popular one is Eclispe. I’m obviously not alone: I ran a few searches on the Eclipse website and found some funny results (leaving news and mail archives out):
Eclispe (17)Eclipes (4)Eclpise (9)Eclpse (2)Eclipe (8) (in the Eclipse Platform API specification??)Eclise (5)
There are probably hundreds more…

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One step further from Exquisitus

Posted in Uncategorized on November 7th, 2005 | 2 Comments »

In our continuous quest for improving accessibility to content, this morning I removed the password protection from the newsgroup NewsPortal (a.k.a. the Simple Web Interface.)
This couldn’t be done until the messages displayed by the NewsPortal were completely SPAM-proofed — meaning e-mail addresses everywhere in the message were mangled in some way so that they cannot [...]

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Phoenix - more than just a pretty face

Posted in Uncategorized on November 1st, 2005 | No Comments »

Project Phoenix is about more than just putting a new face on www.eclipse.org. One of our design goals is to improve usability and access to information.
The Eclipse WebMaster “owns” very little content on the www.eclipse.org website, but we do own a popular section: the main downloads page. In doing our part to improve usability, [...]

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