Archive for September, 2006
Sun SPOT Wireless Sensor Devices Presentation and Demonstrations
Eric Arseneau, a Lead Researcher at Sun Microsystems (and former Smalltalker), has offered to come in an show us a demonstration of the Sun SPOT Wireless Sensor devices on Wednesday morning next week (October 4, 2006) at 10:00 am.
Eric’s main area of research is in the Squawk VM technology. He promises to show us [...]
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How to Get Help when building Eclipse RCP Applications
During our recent webinar on Eclipse Rich Client Platform, one of the attendees asked this question:
If we have some technical issues during RCP development work, where can we post our problems?
The answer to this question depends on how you define “issues” and “problems”. If the problem you have is a bug, then you should report [...]
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Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) Webinar
Jeff McAffer and I presented a webinar yesterday on Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Unfortunately, the playback was interrupted yesterday by a server crash that sent us into the Q&A session a lot sooner than we had expected (and cut off about half of the presentation). If you missed out yesterday, you can get the slides [...]
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Callisto Great Bugs Grand Prize, Part One
We finally managed to synch up our schedules after a busy summer so that we could present John Arthorne with his award from the Callisto Great Bugs Competition. The competition was designed to encourage the community to provide great bug reports as part of the drive to the Callisto release of Eclipse. John’s name was [...]
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I speak English well
I delivered a presentation for the Java Metroplex Users Group in Dallas, Texas last week. I think the talk went well; at least a few folks in the audience seemed to indicate that it went well and most people stayed around even after the pizza was gone.
Almost everybody in the audience was a current [...]
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Single Code Base for ISVs
During this short talk and demonstration during the Eclipse Tailgate Party at Eclipse World 2006, Ihor Strutynskyj brought up an incredibly important point. Unfortunately, he didn’t make the point as explicitly as I had hoped (I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for him to say it–oh well).
The software that [...]
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Road Trip!
Donald and I were sitting, comfortable and carefree, in the departures lounge at Ottawa International Airport this past Tuesday as we waited for our flight to Boston to attend Eclipse World 2006. Our comfortable and carefree existence was rudely interrupted by somebody (who I sure is very nice) announcing that our flight had been cancelled. [...]
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