Archive for September, 2008
Keeping the Planet clean
In doing my part to keep the Planet clean, I removed all the stale blogs from PlanetEclipse which had nothing new for more than a year. Some names were truly ancient and didn’t have any new posts since early 2005.
If your blog was axed and you still want to be part of the Planet, [...]
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ECF and peer chat using XMPP
Chris and Scott got an XMPP server up and running, and we loaded it up with the Bugzilla account information for all the Eclipse committers. We’ve been having fun exploring the possibilities of chat within Eclipse itself, using the ECF tools.
It’s interesting to know that, without leaving Eclipse, I can initiate a discussion with peers [...]
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… and the winner is …
Yesterday I blogged about how our servers went haywire as a result of Karl’s (my trusty blog partner and fellow webmaster) accidental usage of the ENTER key. I was looking for the first person to correctly identify at which time this happened by looking at our bandwidth graph.
Each vertical line corresponds to 30 minutes, and [...]
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Laugh at Karl, win a t-shirt
When you work with the Eclipse servers intimately, you’re bound to break them at some time. I’ve done it, Matt has done it, Nathan has done it, and even Bjorn has done it. This time, Karl earns the clown nose for removing all our download mirrors from the list (he wanted to disable [...]
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