Archive for the 'Conferences' Category
Mike Squillace and Accessibility in Eclipse
In this podcast (15:21), Mike Squillace, co-Technical Lead for the ACTF project discusses his EclipseCon 2009 Main stage presentation, Eclipse for All: Doing Accessibility Right in the Framework, the Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project, and accessibility in Eclipse in general.
We talk about accessibility in the Eclipse workbench. Mike, who is himself blind, does all of [...]
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The EclipseCon 2009 Emerging Technology track
Bjorn and I represented the Emerging Technology track on the EclipseCon 2009 Programme Committee. Today, we recorded this short podcast discussing the track and some of the talks that you can expect to find at this year’s EclipseCon.
Many (or perhaps most) of the talks on the Emerging Technology track have some connection to one Technology [...]
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EclipseCon Very Early Registration Deadline approaching…
The Very Early Registration Deadline for EclipseCon 2009 is December 31st. Register today and save some money!
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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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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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Java Forum Stuttgart 2008
There’s something about the Java Forum Stuttgart conference that I really like. The conference is a little on the large size (I believe that I heard that there were 1,200 attendees) which gives the exhibit area a really busy feel. Good busy.
As a speaker, I can’t say enough about this conference. They take care of [...]
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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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Using ECF for Lightweight Distributed Team Collaboration
In Using ECF for Lightweight Distributed Team Collaboration
Scott Lewis (BEA Systems), started by stating the goals of the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) project: to “lower barriers to team and community communication by providing [an] interoperable, integrated, extensible framework”.
Scott spoke of team productivity. Specifically, he talked a book by Scott E. Page, “The Difference” that [...]
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Eclipse Riena Project
This morning, after the throught-provoking keynote by Cory Doctorow, I sat in on the Eclipse Riena Project session, presented by Christian Campo (compeople AG, Frankfurt/Main, Germany)
Fundamentally, Riena is about distributing services across tiers. It’s born from a need to have applications that are lighter than rich clients, but more functional and performant than light [...]
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Gratuitous Weather Reference
People often ask us why we have EclipseCon in Santa Clara every year.
This is the convention center in Santa Clara:
(note the fountains on the left, the palm trees, and the generally warm glow).
This is my home in Ottawa (where most Eclipse Foundation employees live):
(note the after effects of more than 4m of snow).
Does that answer [...]
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