Archive for October, 2007
Holding Court
One of the more interesting conference phenomenons is the informal court. These tend to spontaneously form around the some of our more well-known luminaries. Here’s a picture of Ed Merks holding court in the common area of Eclipse Summit Europe. The group has grown by another three people since I started typing.
Ed is the technical [...]
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Eclipstation
The Ingres folks are showing off their Eclipse Data Tools Project (DTP) integration at Eclipse Summit Europe. The best part is that they’ve presented me with the holy grail: a potentially justifiable reason to get the Eclipse Foundation to buy me a Playstation 3.
They’re demonstrating Eclipse, running the DTP with Ingres support on the Playstation [...]
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Follow me to Riena
I think that I’ve mentioned before that I’m excited about the Riena project. So are some other people attending Eclipse Summit Europe.
We had a presentation from Alex Ziegler about Riena at the RCP Experience Workshop which was well-received by everybody at the workshop. Alex is the project lead and lead architect of the proposed project. [...]
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Authentication and Authorization at the RCP Experience Workshop
The first hour (of four) of the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe is over. The main topic of discussion thus far has been authentication and authorization. Essentially, the concern is that of hiding (or at least disabling) features based on permissions (authorization) of the user. Several ideas have been bounced about.
This is a [...]
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Festival Seating
There will not be reserved seating and nobody will be turned away at the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe. That said, I’d like to give priority seating to those who have actual experiences to share (being as this is the focus of the workshop). I’d like to ask (politely and respectfully) those of [...]
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RCP Experience Workshop Format
I’ve updated the RCP Experience Workshop wiki page to include a section on format. The short version is that we’re going to ask 2-3 people to stand up in front of the crowd and present their experiences with RCP. Each person will get 20 minutes. I’ve asked the folks representing the Riena project to present [...]
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Getting started with Properties
Over the last few days, I’ve been communicating with a developer who was having trouble getting the Properties view to work with his view and objects. It turns out that the real problem was more a lack of understanding of the adapter framework. I came up with three progressive examples to demonstrate their use.
Using the [...]
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RCP Experience Workshop Wiki Page
I’ve created a page for the RCP Experience Workshop at Eclipse Summit Europe on the Eclipse Wiki. Right now, the page only contains a description of the workshop and a list of the names of folks who asked to attend. The list is made from my mail log, so I may have missed somebody. If [...]
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Napoli, Eclipse-IT, and Pompeii
Ralph and I attended the ECLIPSE-IT International Conference hosted by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Napoli Federico II this week in Naples, Italy. Ralph did a great presentation on building innovation networks. Mine was on one of my favourite topics: test-first development. Frankly, I’m not 100% happy with my delivery (I’ve done [...]
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equals() and hashcode() oh my!
While communicating with a colleague today, I was reminded today about how painful explaining equals() and hashcode() to new Java developers can be. What’s particularly frustrating is that it’s not really a Java issue. I remember learning all about the ins and outs of equality and hash in Smalltalk, and then struggling to help others [...]
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