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Eclipse Runtime Technologies Summit
Seems like we’ve had a real run on summits lately. Equinox and CDT summits, the Eclipse Summit Europe, OS Summit Asia is coming up and now the Eclipse Summit on Runtime Technologies and Platforms is being planned. The casual observer could quite reasonably be confused by all this summiting. Let me explain [...]
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Equinox Summit summary
I had every intention of blogging during and after the Equinox Summit earlier this week. As it turned out, things were way too interesting and the conversation far too engaging for me to get even a couple minutes to dash off a note or two. For those who don’t know what I am [...]
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Plug-in vs. Plugin
Philippe posted earlier today with some sad news. Plug-in is still plug-in and not plugin. But wait Philippe, not all is lost! Plug-in == Bundle! So good-bye plug-in (and plugin for that matter) and hello bundle. Use it in your code, with your friends, in documentation and presentations. It’s simple, easy, shorter and has no [...]
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Provisioning Symposium at ESE
As some of you may have seen in Wayne’s post a while ago, Eclipse Summit Europe is coming up and there are going to be a series of workshops and symposia. He mentioned the RCP experiences workshop (sounds like lots of fun) but I’d like to point out the Provisioning Symposium. Provisioning is [...]
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Classpath management, why bother?
In a recent post, Wayne pointed out several benefits brought to you by PDE and WTP tooling. In particular, if you are developing bundles or web apps, these tools take care of the horrendous classpath management task for you. Thanks! His post reminded me of something that I’ve been talking about for [...]
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The Equinox Summit is coming
I know it is summer and people are thinking about BBQs, landscaping, sailing, … (ok, well, at least I am…) but Ian, our ever so subtle marketing director reminded me that it would be good to remind you that the Equinox Summit is coming up at the end of September. This event promises to be [...]
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Blog moved
Thanks to the webmaster team, committers can now host blogs on eclipse.org infrastructure. Accordingly, I have moved from mcaffer.blogspot.com to http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/jeff. If, for whatever reason you have me in your subscriptions, you may want to update that link.
BTW, some people have asked why the Foundation has setup its own blog infrastructure when there is so [...]
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