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Ladybugs
From the emo@ mail bag:
I hope you can consider change icon for the “eclipse BUGS”. Ladybugs are good bugs, they are helpers to farmers and gardeners. They eat bad bugs. They should not be used as symbol to represent “eclipse BUGS”.
My response:
I think that the ladybug is an excellent symbol for Eclipse Bugs. [...]
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Eclipse Summit Call for Participation Deadline: August 18, 2009
This just in:
Call for Participation – Deadline August 18, 2009
ECLIPSE SUMMIT EUROPE 2009
October 27-29, 2009
Ludwigsburg, Germany
www.eclipsesummit.org
The call for participation at the 4th annual Eclipse Summit Europe is closing soon on August 18, 2009. You are invited to submit proposals for short talks, long talks, symposia and tutorials in five categories: embedded, IDEs, modeling, runtime, and [...]
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Conspiracy Theory for the Day
So I have this new conspiracy theory. I’m not sure if I actually believe it, but I think it’s plausible.
In my absence last week, I managed to accumulate more than 2,000 junk emails in my eclipse.org inbox. Many of these emails were the standard spam-fare. I recall reading that if some small percentage of people [...]
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Where is ReportBugs when we need ‘em?
I had a bizarre experience at JavaOne yesterday. And I have witnesses. Lots of witnesses. We were approached at the Eclipse booth by a gentleman sporting a “FindBugs” t-shirt. Our conversation went something like this:
The guy: Is there somebody here who works on the Eclipse project?
Me: There are three of us here that work on [...]
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… A Man With a Tape Recorder up his Nose
Earlier today, Bjorn announced his departure from the Eclipse Foundation. As Mike later noted, I am stepping into the role of Director, Committer Community. I’m really looking forward to the challenges presented by this great opportunity.
I think that Bjorn and I share a lot of common goals. We both want to reduce unnecessary barriers and [...]
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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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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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Getting to Know EBERT
The Eclipse Examples Project has a 0.1 release review scheduled for next Tuesday (December 23). For this review, there are two components: The Eclipse Business Expense Reporting Tool (EBERT) and Image Utilities. I’ll defer discussion of Image Utilities for another day…
As the name suggests, EBERT is an application that can be used to capture [...]
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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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