Archive for March, 2009
The unsung heroes of EclipseCon
We all heard about how Econ ‘09 was great, and how Bjorn is a superhero. But Bjorn cannot pull off such a great conference alone. I wish to highlight a few behind-the-scenes people that helped make ‘09 such a great conference. In no particular order:
- The Blue Shirt people. You probably didn’t even notice them, [...]
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git off my lawn: DVCS discussions at EclipseCon
There was a lot of discussion surrounding the DVCS topic at EclipseCon. Everything from Panels to Talks to BoFs to bar fights. Well, no bar fights, really.
In the end, at the second of two BoF sessions, small-ish group of people managed to come up with what looks like ‘a plan’. Doug Gaff took some notes, [...]
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A Great EclipseCon
It was great to be at EclipseCon this year and to be able to put so many more names (and user IDs for we webmasters) to faces. I really got to spend some time talking to people who I have worked with extensively and never met and I think that’s a great part of the [...]
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Person of the Week award
There is definitely a buzz about EclipseCon 2009 so far. Folks are telling me the content is great, the organization is awesome and the ambiance is friendly. The one single “complaint” I’ve heard so far is that everyone hears about this Bjorn Freeman-Benson guy, but they don’t know who he is.
If you see the man [...]
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CDO has a really nice project website
http://www.eclipse.org/cdo/
Clean layout, nice icons, not too much text. Also, notice how the sub-pages re-use the icon from the main page for better association. On sub-pages, the left navigation is nicely done and the graphics headers are a nice touch.
Awesome work!
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Make Your Own EclipseCon Schedule
There are LOTS of talks at EclipseCon 2009–I want to go to so many that I can’t keep track of them. Writing them down is not working for me. It turns out that it’s not working for Gabe or Bjorn, either, so we decided to make everyone’s life a little easier. In a quick hour [...]
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Need to move files? Consider a jet.
Sunday morning I’ll be leaving Ottawa with a 350 GB hard disk we all call ‘download.eclipse.org’. This disk will be used for the EclipseCon download mirror.
So which is faster, moving the data over the ‘Net or carrying it on a plane?
The entire Ottawa->Hilton trip is about 8 hours. 350 GB in 8 hours is about [...]
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Lynn has a blog!
For the last three years I’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to get Lynn, our marketing events manager, to blog. Excuses kept coming up, and none of them made any sense.
Yesterday she asked me if I was going to blog about the website usability testing we’ll be conducting at EclipseCon, and that was it. I totally lost [...]
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Eclipse BitTorrents?
Antoine made me do it, I swear.
I set up Osprey, a BitTorrent permaseed/tracker developed by iBiblio. It’s still in its early stages, but you can see what it looks like (and even seed a download).
Please help me test this thing:
Eclipse SDK 3.4.2 torrents
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Server performance — solving disk bottlenecks
In February we added lots of disk space to the Eclipse.org server farm. There were two reasons for this:
We were running out.
Our current disk arrays were doing too much, hurting disk performance.
How do you know if your disk systems are too busy?
look at the activity lights on the drives. Two of our 7-disk array’s lights [...]
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