Archive for March, 2006
Hi, my name is Denis… You know me better as…
In addition to all the tutorials, BoFs, plenaries, keynotes and talks, another great aspect of EclipseCon is that I get to meet the folks with whom I exchange numerous e-mails throughout the months. I had the pleasure of meeting Nick Boldt, Doug Schaefer, Luis de la Rosa, Gunnar Wagenknecht, Chris AnyChick (sp?), Philippe Mulet, and [...]
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www.eclipse.org is b-u-s-y
We knew EclipseCon would be a popular event this year, so we set up a local mirror server here in the conference center for downloads and presentation attachments. This server helps speed things up here at the conference, and alleviate bandwidth use at eclipse.org.
Despite doing this, at its peak usage, our website was hosting [...]
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Tutorial Blues
This morning I was in the “RCP Application Development” tutorial hosted by Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux. The content was very interesting, and, with the help of Nick Edgar, invested every effort in making sure everyone was following along. I love hands-on tutorials where we actually get to code, test, run and debug. [...]
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Blogging live from the bloggers’ party
I’m sitting at the bar at the Hyatt, with Ian, Andre, Chris, Nathan, Alex, Gunnar, Wayne, Ed, Martin, Donald and Scott (and there’s more) sipping on beer, eating wings and yapping about all kinds of Stuff.
I learned that Chris’ last name is pronounced Ahh-neesh-check and Andre’s name is pronounced Wist-hi-zen. Now don’t ask me [...]
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Eclipse: not just for breakfast anymore
I was unfortunate to have a middle seat on the flight to EclipseCon. Fortunately, I met Ralph and Scott. Ralph heads up a development team in Connecticut, and their tool of choice is … Eclipse. Ralph is attending EclipseCon because he wants to get a kick-start on RCP technologies. The next generation [...]
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PlanetEclipse on steroids
Next week we’ll be aggregating PlanetEclipse every 10 minutes, instead of the usual 60, to keep up with the expected deluge of blog posts from EclipseCON. Ian is hosting a blogging party as well, so if you can’t be at EclipseCON this year, reading PlanetEclipse will be the next best thing.
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No love for mirror sites
[RANT MODE ON]After seeing a few bugs open against our mirror sites, I had to stop and wonder if some expectations weren’t being set too high. Let’s remind ourselves that Eclipse is an open-source community with projects hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. Although the Foundation receives money from membership dues to support the infrastructure (among [...]
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It’s a girl!
I know it’s a bit offtopic for Eclipse, but I’m just so proud that I have to tell the world about the birth of my daughter. Alexie is my first baby, weighing in at 8 pounds. I’m a Dad, I’m sleep-deprived, and I’m loving it.
Baby and Mom are both doing well.
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Playboy, Pornography and Eclipse
If you’ve downloaded the Eclipse SDK from our download page, then you’ve likely been labelled as a pornography surfer. You should be fired, suspended or hung, whichever is a la mode to you.
You see, for several months now, Playboy Entreprises, Inc has been mirroring Eclipse, providing bandwidth for some 32,775 downloads in 2006 (yes, [...]
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