Archive for February, 2009
Bug Day at the Bridgehead
This Friday, I’m taking a cue from Chris and Boris and am planning to spend the afternoon working at a local coffee shop. More specifically, I’ll be at the Bridgehead at 1172 Bank St. (at Grove, south of the canal) from about noon until around 4pm or so. Since I’m new at this (how lame [...]
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Bug Day at a Local Coffeeshop?
I’m not a coffee drinker myself, but I do have to admit that I feel a little jealous every time Chris‘ Facebook status shows that he’s working at a local hot spot…
Eclipse Bug Day is coming up, this February 27. It seems like a great opportunity to get out of the office and into the [...]
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Brian Fitzpatrick, Data Tools at EclipseCon 2009
On January 30th, I spoke with Brian Fitzpatrick (PMC Lead, Architecture and Planning Councils Representative, Architecture Council Mentor, Project Lead, and Committer) from the Data Tools Project (DTP) about the Data Tools track at EclipseCon 2009. As has become tradition, we digressed frequently from the main focus of our conversation and discussed numerous topics (all [...]
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EclipseCon 2009 Eclipse Platform UI/RCP Track
Chris Aniszczyk and Boris Bokowski are two committers that the Eclipse community recognises by their first names alone. Stories of their tireless contributions to Eclipse projects and the community are legendary. These guys are giants in the community. Their names will one day be rendered in flashing tubes of neon…
Too much? A little over the [...]
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CloudFree Free?
Bug 262232 asks if the CloudFree Server Platform project should change its name.
I have to admit, that I’ve never been really comfortable with the name. The purpose of this project, “an open, dynamic and extensible platform for Equinox based server solutions”, does suggest that the project might play some role in cloud computing. But the [...]
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EclipseCon BoFs
If my math skills are up to scratch (and I’m pretty confident they are), we have 72 slots for “birds of a feather” (BoF) sessions at EclipseCon this year. Realistically, we’ll probably lose a few of those slots as we get closer to the big event.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, we’re accepting/scheduling BoFs in [...]
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