Archive for the 'eclipse' Category
Cola is just too cool!
This is just too cool. The ECF guys (in particular Mustafa Isik) have some up with a system for real-time shared editing mechanism called Cola. I’ve not tried it myself but the screencast they put together is so compelling that I had to stop watching it and post this! Check it out. [...]
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Voting now! Eclipse Membership changes
For what I believe is the first time in the history of the Eclipse Foundation we are changing the by-laws. What has prompted this? Effectively the success of Eclipse has changed the dynamics around membership. The current membership structure does not match with what members are looking for. The Board has come [...]
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Another term…
As mentioned elsewhere (here here here), the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors election results are in. I am very pleased to have been re-elected for another term. I mentioned in my vision statement that working on the board is extremely educational and gratifying. Gaining the support of the community to do that work is doubly [...]
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Reset required
You know those times when you are blissfully away from email and you come back and all hell has broken loose? That’s me today as I read the various posts and messages about e4. Hopefully the following will help make things better rather than making them worse…
First, to dispel some myths.
There is no evil [...]
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On the board again?
I was thinking the other day, “Why am I running for re-election in the current Eclipse Board elections?” It’s really quite a bit of work. There are monthly phone calls, quarterly face to face meetings, committees and working groups, prep for all of the above, … Oh my!
All in all I figure it takes [...]
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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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The eerie silence in IPzilla…
Ottawa is unusually quiet today. People are burrowing in for a winter storm that is coming up from the US. A quote from Environment Canada
A low pressure area over Arkansas is getting organized and setting its sights on southern Ontario
I would have thought that the Arkansans would be too busy organizing Super Tuesday [...]
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Chatting with Coté
The other day RedMonk analyst Michael Coté and I chatted about Equinox, OSGi, components and what it means to use components to building modular systems. We had a great time and ended up with a two part videocast. The first part is a discussion about the technologies and issues while the second is [...]
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