Archive for November, 2008
Higgins spotted!
This YouTube video shows Eclipse Higgins being used to authenticate a user and grant access for that user to GMail. The video is just one of a collection of videos showing some advanced authentication mechanisms that Google research is investigating.
Higgins in huge in the identity management space. The project has recently updated their website with [...]
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g-eclipse at Eclipse Summit Europe
Markus Knauer and Harald Kornmayer presented the g-eclipse project at Eclipse Summit Europe earlier today (”From Grid to Cloud computing“). Markus gave a great demo of how g-eclipse can be used to manage a collection of computers running in (on?) Amazon’s cloud (there’s some good documentation that shows how it’s all done).
I cornered Markus and [...]
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Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 3
Excelsior just released Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 3. With Excelsior JET, you can compile your Java- and Eclipse-based applications into a “native” executable with an embedded JRE (no external JRE required). The new version features a GUI for compiling RCP applications. Their website contains a collection of compiled open source applications, including RSSOwl, that come [...]
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Eric Rizzo Joins the Technology PMC
Eric Rizzo has joined the Technology PMC. Anybody who has been paying attention will no-doubt recognise Eric’s name. He was the winner of the “Top Newcomer Evangelist” award at last year’s EclipseCon. If you spend any time in the Eclipse newsgroups, you’ve likely come across his name. He is very active in the newcomer, and [...]
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University Outreach and the Google Summer of Code
The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme has been a great vehicle for university outreach. For the 2008 running of GSoC, the Eclipse Foundation received student 127 applications from almost as many institutions. Most of the students submitting proposals were currently enrolled in undergraduate programmes, but many where pursuing graduate-level studies. I’m pretty sure that [...]
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Get your proposals in for EclipseCon 2009!
The EclipseCon 2009 submission system is now open and ready for your talk proposals. Be sure to get your talk proposal in before the November 24th deadline. Now… November 24th sounds like a long way off, but it’ll be here before you know it. Get your proposals in today.
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