Archive for June, 2008
Stammtisch at the Hotel Krone in Stuttgart, July 3rd.
One of the more exciting things I get to do when I visit Germany is attend one of Ralph’s many Stammtisches (or is that Stammtischae?) For the uninitiated, Stammtisch translates roughly into “regular’s table”. Ralph’s incarnation of the tradition brings members of the Eclipse community together to socialize and network while drinking beer and eating [...]
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Project Pairing Visualization
At Nick’s suggestion, I’ve been tinkering with using Zest to visualize the project pairing data that I’ve spend so darned much time gathering from the Usage Data Collector results over the past week.
This image was generated using the “Spring graph” layout algorithm to represent how closely related the various projects are.
The spring layout algorithm pulls [...]
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Ganymede Presentation
I’m working on a presentation about Ganymede. I’ve already got some slides from the talk Mike and I did at JavaOne 2008, and am in the process of adding material from Chris’ article on developerWorks. I’ve scavenged a lot of material from the Eclipsepedia wiki on the topic and have loaded the latest and greatest [...]
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Project Pairing reports: Now with column sorting!
Last week, I wrote about a new report I added for the UDC data that shows project pairings “in the wild”. In a comment, Nick effectively killed my weekend. Nick, my wife’s not happy with you. I showed her your picture. Be careful.
The report can now be sorted on columns. Actually, this part was easy [...]
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Real-Time Shared Editing
Mustafa has posted a cool screencam of shared editing using Eclipse. He and a friend, Thomas, chat via Skype while they work together on the same file in shared editor. It’s about as good as real side-by-side pair-programming… It may even be a little better (though pair-programming traditionalists may baulk at the notion of both [...]
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What is Riena About?
Elias posted this note on the Riena Dev list. I think it’s interesting reading that deserves a broader audience. So… here it is.
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From my personal point-of-view (having done a couple of RCP projects) the benefit of Riena that is important to *me* is, that Riena will provide a more “accessible” technology for writing rich clients [...]
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Project pairings
I decided that it might be cool to find out which projects are being used together in the wild, so I wrote a new report using data collected by the Usage Data Collector (UDC). The report shows a table where each row contains a pair of projects and a number. The number represents the number [...]
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Does anybody know how such-and-such is coded?
Occasionally we get questions along these lines on the newsgroups:
Does anybody know how X is coded in Eclipse?
The simple answer is yes. Everybody can know how it’s coded. The source code is out there for all to see.
You have a couple of choices when it comes to viewing source code from Eclipse projects. If you [...]
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Usage Data Collection and Testing
Earlier this week, while helping James prepare some words to include in this week’s EclipseZone newsletter on the Usage Data Collector (UDC), a thought occurred to me (which I included in the text): the information gathered by the UDC should help in testing.
Think about the magnitude of the testing problem that faces Eclipse projects. Consider [...]
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Evangelism Site Makeover
I’ve spent some time over the past few days reworking the Eclipse Evangelism site. Perhaps the first thing that you’ll notice is that I’ve simplified the look of the page.
The second thing that you should notice is the list of “evangelism” resources. I’ve started cleaning up some of my talks and am posting the slides [...]
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