Archive for February, 2008
A tale of a laptop, a mouse and a chair
This is a bit off my normal discourse but, well, it may be of service to someone out there. I recently (yesterday) received a new Lenovo T61p laptop. Sweet. 1920×1200 screen, fast processor, big drive, … I’ve spent the past couple days installing stuff and getting it setup. For the most part it has gone swimmingly. [...]
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Analyze that!
I remember a few weeks ago seeing a message about the Memory Analyzer project proposal. Some guys from SAP were going to open source some of their tooling to analyze Java heap dumps. I didn’t think much about it at the time other than “Hey, that’s probably a good idea”. The other [...]
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EclipseCon, a runtime guy’s dream!
What the heck? “Eclipse” and “runtime” in the same sentence? Most people think of Eclipse as a tooling thing. Or perhaps an RCP thing. Well, take a look at the EclipseCon program and you will see that Eclipse is that and a whole lot more. I thought selecting talks on [...]
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2008 Board elections
It is that time of year again — the elections for your committer and add-in representatives to the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors is here. This year the list of candidates is most impressive. Last year the committer rep candidate list was unfortunately dominated by IBMers (including me!). This year less than half [...]
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