Archive for March, 2008
Hi, meet Amber
Yesterday I met the person with the coolest name at EclipseCon… Meet Amber Beerends.
The end of a beer is always sad, but the way I see it, whenever a beer ends, a new one begins. Amber was interested in the Babel project, as Eclipse translations are important to the RCP work she does [...]
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Eclipse IP done easy
Tonight I witnessed what really makes the Eclipse IP team so cool. Need your Contribution Questionnaires approved fast? Follow along as Eclipse legend Chris Aniszczyk show us how.
1. Meet up with prolific IP superstar. Offer money.
2. Observe as IP superstar denies bribery while gladly accepting large cash contributions from poor but [...]
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EclipseCon mirror is keeping busy
Matt, who is stuck back in Ottawa, just gave me the numbers on the EclipseCon downloads mirror. So far, 40,000 files were moved from the AMD box to your laptops, representing 26 Gigabytes.
The ‘Con has been great so far, and there’s still plenty left. The atmosphere is energetic, the food is quite good, the [...]
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EclipseCon mirror server, powered by AMD
If you’re at EclipseCon and you download Eclipse files, go ahead and choose the internal mirror server Karl and I just finished setting up. Our friends at AMD brought three amazing Spider desktops, each with a quad-core Phenom processor and 4GB of RAM. One of those is serving downloads for us here at [...]
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What’s the bandwidth of an Airbus A-319?
As I was flying into Santa Clara for EclipseCon 2008 with a complete copy of the Eclipse downloads area, I got to thinking how much data throughput I’m getting. Needless to say, the in-flight movie was bad, and the 10-year-old boy behind me made sure I remained awake for the entire duration of the [...]
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Babel Olympics: Spanish in the lead
Now that Babel is producing semi-decent language packs for Eclipse, someone on Team Spain has been hard at work for Babel, as the Spanish translations have a distant lead over the other teams. Here are the standings:
1. Spanish 50499
2. German 47395
3. French 47143
4. Turkish 44975
5. Italian 44958
I also ran a quick query [...]
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Poor Mario
Now I know how poor Mario feels. This is the wonderful week before EclipseCon where every man, woman and child abuses the eclipse.org servers in order to get everything ready for the big party conference.
In revenge, the servers just lob every known error and warning at us, expecting us to solve everything and save [...]
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Standardized Groups Rock for Webmasters AND Projects
A little Eclipse trivia quiz for you today (to make a point). Anyone know which project owns the Eclipse Unix groups below or what they’re for?
core-variables
javafam
xsd
Ok, so I already know where all of those belong–I don’t know what they’re for–but you can see how scripting anything using this data without a complex lookup table [...]
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Major boost for Babel
The Babel project inherited about 1,000,000 string translations last week as I imported the Eclipse Platform 3.2 translation set into the Babel server. The Eclipse project, version 3.3 and the upcoming 3.4, now have over 23,000 string translations each, in about 20 languages.
Now that the bulk of the work is done for 3.3/3.4, I [...]
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