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Archive for June, 2007

More bandwidth for Europa

Posted in Uncategorized on June 15th, 2007 | No Comments »

I just placed the order for more bandwidth to handle the Europa demand — not a moment too soon, as the many builds and testing phases happening right now are putting a strain on bandwidth. In addition to our regular 100Mb connection, we’re going Gigabit for the additional bandwidth. But before you get all [...]

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Webmaster blog gets a real author

Posted in Uncategorized on June 13th, 2007 | 4 Comments »

When Matt and Karl joined the ranks as webmaster, I invited both of them to be authors on my blog. After all, it’s not my blog, it’s the webmaster’s blog, and we all wear the same shoes. They kindly declined, most likely because they were too shy at the time. However, Karl told [...]

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Conferencing is coming…

Posted in Uncategorized on June 13th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Many Eclipse community people are probably familiar with the Foundation’s conference calling solution, having attended meetings in some manner via the dial-ins. Well, not surprisingly, that has turned out to be a relatively expensive service and the cost has prevented us from being able to roll it out more widely to the community. [...]

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Europa test-drive - part II

Posted in Uncategorized on June 12th, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Yesterday I took Europa (Eclipse 3.3RC3) for a spin, and it proved to be a great experience for me. Finding and installing additional tools for Eclipse is much, much easier than before, thanks in part to the Europa discovery site. Today, I’m trying the experiment again, except this time I’m going for the latest Webtools [...]

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Europa test-drive

Posted in Uncategorized on June 11th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Europa is only 18 days away, so this morning I decided to take it for a spin. Normally I’d download and install Eclipse for PHP development, but the PDT project isn’t participating in the Europa release this year, so I’ll simply pretend that I’m a hotshot C++ developer who wants to get going with the [...]

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Bugzilla: search for attachment creator

Posted in Uncategorized on June 7th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Jerome opened bug 191194, requesting the possibility to search for attachments that were submitted by someone specific. Although Bugzilla’s Advanced Search is very thorough, it doesn’t include such criteria. But after a bit of digging, I found this little gem on Mozilla’s bugzilla, which suggests this workaround:
In advanced Search, pick Attachment Data / [...]

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