Archive for March, 2008
The Interesting Part
The Eclipse Examples project has been provisioned! I’ll spend some time later this week setting up the landing page and get to work moving some of my examples into the new project. Frankly, it’s exciting as heck for me.
Over the last few days, I’ve been dreaming a bit about some of the code that I’d [...]
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Tracking Equinox Services in Eclipse RCP
This video podcast shows a simplified example of Equinox services in action. It shows declarative services being dynamically discovered using a service tracker that updates the user interface to show the services that are available. The example also shows Equinox declarative services, and the JFace databinding APIs in use.
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Eric Rizzo, Top Newcomer Evangelist
Eric Rizzo received the Top Newcomer Evangelist award at EclipseCon 2008. In this podcast, Eric discusses his tireless work with the Eclipse newcomer newsgroup, getting help with Eclipse, and more.
The link should also soon be available on Eclipse Live.
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GSoC Timeline
The Google Summer of Code timeline is posted in the GSoC FAQ. According to the timeline, students have until March 31 to submit their project proposals. Don’t delay, submit today!
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Video Podcast: Creating an Equinox Service using Declarative Services
I just posted a video podcast titled “Creating an Equinox Service using Declarative Services“. This video podcast briefly describes Equinox services and goes through the steps required to create and run a service using the Equinox Declarative Services (in incubation at the time of recording).
For the recording, I cranked my screen resolution down to 640×480 [...]
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GSoC Students: Read this carefully
We’ve received many wonderful applications; I’m really looking forward to this term’s GSoC.
Students, you need to submit your proposals through the Google Summer of Code system. You can find it here: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/. You will have to register with Google if you want them to pay you for your efforts. We are always happy to accept [...]
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Apply Now! Google Summer of Code 2008
Google has opened their Summer of Code 2008 application system up for students, so now is the time. The student application deadline is March 31 @ 5pm PDT.
We have already received a bunch of applications and there’s some good stuff. There are also a lot of incomplete proposals.
Students, it’s not enough to send us [...]
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Equinox Services and User Interface
I’ve been trying to decide how to work with Equinox services in the user interface.
I’ve started modifying the Organizer application that will soon be part of the Eclipse Examples Project (once it’s provisioned) to use Equinox services. I’ve got a view that updates its appearance based on available services. The implementation is straightforward enough. The [...]
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Best part of EclipseCon
Tonight I was asked what, for me, was the highlight of EclipseCon 2008.
The keynotes were good… great even. Finally meeting Eric Rizzo, one of the most prolific contributors on eclipse.newcomer, face-to-face was great. I attended many sessions and enjoyed them all (though I have to admit a certain amount of guilt for “live-blogging” during the [...]
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Lots of Web Developers
Participation with the Usage Data Collector (UDC) continues to increase. Over the past 14 days, 2,757,764 usage data events were been generated by 547 users (an average of 5,042 events per user). It seems that 370 of you used the JDT Package Explorer and 88 used the WST Servers view. I haven’t run any analysis [...]
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