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Archive for January, 2008

Allô Eclipse? Ici Babel … parlez-vous Français?

Posted in Uncategorized on January 30th, 2008 | No Comments »

Et oui! Finally, after a couple of months of doodling and a few weeks of intense coding, the Babel team (with Bjorn’s help) is releasing its Web-based Translation tool - Release 0 to the general public.
You can now easily do your part in helping translate Eclipse. All you need is a Bugzilla account.
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The results are in

Posted in Uncategorized on January 25th, 2008 | No Comments »

Yesterday I conducted a poll asking Friends of Eclipse what they’d like to do for EclipseCON. Don’t go voting now — it’s a bit too late Here are the results:
45: im-a-friend-of-eclipse-and-im-going-to-eclipseconCool! Look me up, I’ll likely be wearing AMDware all week (hopefully different -ware each day).
26: im-not-a-friend-of-eclipse-and-im-so-ashamed-of-myselfYes, I understand. [...]

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Friends of Eclipse @ EclipseCON

Posted in Uncategorized on January 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Are there any Friends of Eclipse attending EclipseCON? If so, I’m thinking a beer is in order. Those who know me know I like conducting highly scientific polls using the latest technology jargon, so here goes another one. Oh, and SharonC, if you’re reading, remember it is perfectly normal for the poll [...]

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More bandwidth!

Posted in Uncategorized on January 17th, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Today we’ll be moving closer to the practical limits of Full-Duplexed 100Base-TX, as our bandwidth limit [1] will be increased to 80 Mbps. Faster site, cool! The best part? The additional 10 Mbps are FREE since bandwidth costs typically go down every year, we’re getting an extra 10 Mbps for no extra [...]

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I’m going to EclipseCON!

Posted in Uncategorized on January 16th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I just booked my flight to EclipseCON, and I’m really looking forward to going this year. I missed last year’s event because it competed with my daughter’s 1st birthday, but this year they moved the conference dates specifically to accommodate me. Maybe not.
Have you seen this year’s program? There’s a lot in there [...]

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New Project Summary Pages

Posted in Uncategorized on January 14th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

You may have noticed some of the re-arrangement in the /projects part of the Eclipse website. One of the new pages is a standardized summary page implementation for all projects giving clear and centralized links to lots of things we keep hearing that people can’t find. We’ve also thrown in some cool tidbits [...]

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