Archive for January, 2007
EclipseCon 2007: Business and Industry Tracks
Yesterday, I sat down with Donald Smith to discuss the Business and Industry Tracks at EclipseCon 2007. Here’s an exerpt from our conversation:
“EclipseCon has a reputation as being a hard-core developer conference, and there’s definitely a lot of developers there. But we have a lot of marketing folks, a lot of business development folks, and [...]
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EclipseCon Recommended Tracks
I’ve been looking over the recommended tracks for EclipseCon 2007.
Based on what I know of folks like Chris and Alex, their recommended tracks are more-or-less exactly what I’d expect. There is some overlap between their recommendations and mine, so I’m sure to bump into them. Actually, I’m virtually guaranteed to run into both of [...]
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Fancy Date Widget
The Eclipse Nebula project has grown a lot in the last few months and it now includes an impressive collection of widgets, including a slick looking date and time picker. For the uninitiated, Nebula is a project where new widgets that complement SWT are created.
Nebula’s CDataTime widget is pretty slick looking, and is pretty intuitive [...]
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Pasting a CVS URL
There are a great many features in Eclipse that I take for granted. One is the handy way that the "Add CVS Repository" wizard handles CVS URLs. The wizard is opened from the "CVS Repositories" view, by selecting menu item "New > Repository location…".
When you first see the wizard, it looks like you have to [...]
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Choice is Good?
I think that everybody agrees: choice is good. And with Eclipse comes lots of choice; just look at Eclipse Plug-in Central (EPIC) (which is pretty much the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Eclipse plug-ins). Given that choice is good, it may seem strange that there are so many discussions about features that [...]
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Eclipse Corner Articles
I’ve been putting a lot of thought into Eclipse Corner lately. We’ve been getting a lot of proposals and submissions lately, and some of them have given me cause to reflect on just what kind of content should be posted on Eclipse Corner. The process today is pretty straight forward:
The author submits a proposal through [...]
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Eclipse: A Solid Desktop, Rich-Client, or Embedded Application Framework
Eclipse Developer’s Journal has published an article from Todd Williams titled “Eclipse: A Solid Desktop, Rich-Client, or Embedded Application Framework“. It provides a good overview of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). If you’re thinking about building a rich client application, it’s definitely worth reading.
I’ve updated the link in this post to point to the [...]
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Wayne’s EclipseCon Recommended Track
EclipseCon is my favourite show of the year. And that’s not just because I’m an employee of the Eclipse Foundation. Honestly.
I’ve put together a recommended track; I’m not sure if I’ve done it in the right spirit, since I’ve just made a listing of the talks that I’m planning to attend. It would be more [...]
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Graphical Modeling Framework
I’ve been playing on and off with the Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) for a few months. I am by no means an expert, but I’m coming along. Over the past week or so, I’ve been playing with the the 2.0M3 milestone build (I see that 2.0M4 is out today). Setting up your environment to work [...]
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Harmony and Eclipse RCP
In November, I wrote about some experiments I did with Eclipse running on Apache Harmony. At the time, I was concerned exclusively with how much of the Eclipse SDK I could get running on the Harmony JRE. Today it occurred to me to try some of my Eclipse RCP applications running on it. Without exception, [...]
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