Archive for August, 2008
Kneel before Zod!
It’s official. I am the new PMC Lead for the Technology Project. It’s all about the power. All must kneel before Zod. Actually… it’s all about responsibility. That, and the power to crush your enemies. Can you tell that I’m of two minds?
As a few of you are already aware, I’ve started a process of [...]
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Reviewers and Editors Deserve Love Too!
We have what has been referred to as an “embarrassment of riches” in Eclipse Corner. We have a lot of articles that are either in development, or are ready for publishing. The problem is that we have a bit of a shortage of reviewers and editors. Perhaps one of the problems is that we do [...]
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SWT Graph
The SWT Graph Source Forge project provides some pretty sophisticated interactive graphical technology for Eclipse RCP-based applications. The sample images shown on the examples page are pretty cool, but the description of the underlying technology seems even cooler. Layered canvases are a natural and very powerful extension to SWT.
It’s licensed under the LGPL. Make sure [...]
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Ingres Cafe: Best Development Tool
Ingress CAFÉ (Consolidated Application Foundation for Eclipse) was selected as the Best Application Development Tool at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this week. Congratulations!
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Compile your Eclipse RCP application to a native code executable
Dmitry Leskov introduced me to Excelsior JET at JavaOne this year.
Excelsior JET 6.5 will enable you to compile your Eclipse RCP application to a native code executable and distribute it without the original class/jar files.
My first question, when Dmitry showed me JET in action was whether or not it supports the OSGi dynamic runtime. [...]
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Wanna see some numbers?
I’ve got some numbers from from the usage data collector for the month of July. It’s the first full month of real data. Currently, I’ve only got data for commands, views, editors, and perspectives used; the information is restricted to only show those entries that start with “org.eclipse.”. You can change the sort order of [...]
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Write lots of code
I generally enjoy reading Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog. Yesterday his post, Quantity Always Trumps Quality, made me think of two things. First, the thoughts conveyed are exemplified at Eclipse: we value code over specifications; code is written, mistakes are made, lessons are learned, and everything gets better in the process. Second, it made me [...]
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