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EclipseDay is Today!
By Chris Aniszczyk
Just a gentle reminder, EclipseDay is today at the Googleplex. I’m busily ‘optimizing’ my slides this morning for the event while pounding coffee. I will be giving a presentation about Plug-in Development Tips and Tricks. It should be fun, I tried to organize a list of things I find useful during my own plug-in development escapades. I hope the audience is full of plug-in developers, we’ll see 😉
Oh, I also had a PDE interview go live over at InfoQ for those who are interested.
Congratulations Instantiations!
By Chris Aniszczyk
For the third year in a row, Instantiations has been named to Oregon’s Fastest Growing Private Companies Top 100 List. It’s good to see a company built around Eclipse technology doing well (even though I hear they have guys locked in the basement working on Smalltalk products ;p).
This is something that most people miss when they think of Eclipse. Eclipse is not just about free software, hippies and freetards, it’s about a ecosystem of major vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and individuals coming together to extend and support the Eclipse platform.
In the end, we all benefit from building the Eclipse platform even though we may have very different goals and motivations. Where else can you find such a diverse group of individuals and companies working together under one umbrella?
Cloud 9
By Chris Aniszczyk
As some of you have figured out due to LinkedIn spam, I have decided to team up with Jeff McAffer at Code9 to take things to the next level. Expect to see a formal announcement on Monday.
In the end, expect to see us still heavily involved at Eclipse. The both of us care deeply about Eclipse and want to move things forward. There’s a lot of exciting opportunities in the Eclipse ecosystem with technologies like p2 and the e4 project on the horizon. As for me, I will still remain committing on PDE pushing it in interesting directions and continue spreading the Eclipse love.
Cheers 😉
Ganymede Article
By Chris Aniszczyk
Just to let people know, my annual Eclipse train article is out:
Thanks to all the committers and project leads who helped me compose it with their fantastic quotes. I’m a big fan of hearing things from the source, so I’m sure the technical readership will appreciate it just as much as I do.
Eclipse Code Swarm
By Chris Aniszczyk
For those who had their fun with Wordle already, check out code swarm:
Code swarm visualizes the history of commits in a software project. What’s really neat is that one of the projects that code swarm profiled was Eclipse (SDK). So if you look at the code swarm visualization of the Eclipse SDK, you get to see some cool things. In the beginning, you can see DJ and John Arthorne battling to enter the CVS nexus first:
After that, a lot more people join the Eclipse party:
I’m a big fan of visualization so it’s always cool to come across things that try to give us any insight into the crazy world of open-source development. For more fun, you can look at the other visualizations on the code swarm site and compare them to the Eclipse one.
BBQ, Ganymede, DemoCamp
By Chris Aniszczyk
I am proud to announce that Austin will be hosting a DemoCamp for Ganymede. Why should you come? Well, first, Nokia will graciously be hosting the DemoCamp in their downtown offices (thank you!):
Why is this awesome? Because about two blocks from their offices is Stubbs BBQ:
This is where we will have lunch and drink (after the demos) in honor of the Ganymede release.
So please come and join us Austinites for BBQ, demos, beer and good times! Note, we have a limit of about 20-25 people for this event so put your name down early!
Where in the world is…!?
By Chris Aniszczyk
Oh my, I just had a flash back to Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. In case you guys haven’t seen this, the Eclipse Foundation is doing a cool contest for Ganymede that involves a cool map:
From the looks of it, Europeans love Ganymede more at the moment… I guess Ganymede is a better word than ‘Europa’ for them 🙂
As a committer, it’s nice to read reviews of Ganymede from community members as you get a feeling of like, “oh wow, someone actually appreciates the work we put into that feature.”
If you have a minute, please add yourself to the map. I personally plan to add myself once my sweet Ganymede article comes out next week.
Automated IP logs
By Chris Aniszczyk
One of the more challenging things in leading a project at Eclipse is dealing with the IP policy. However, this isn’t a bad thing though, a clean code base can ensure more adoption, especially from commercial adopters. A big part of this process is to come up with ip logs that represent the contributions to your project. This helps establish a code pedigree for your project, plus, it allows you to also easily recognize contributors if you wish. In the past, this was mostly a manual process that involved bugzilla queries and CSV files.
Well, thanks to the Eclipse Foundation and the committer representatives, we no longer have to do that. Check out this bug. The basic gist of things is that you tag your patches with the ‘iplog’ flag when you want to include a contribution in the iplog:
Cool huh? Now that we have a standard way of doing this, tools can be written to automatically generate the log and check for compliance. In my opinion, this should make the lives of project leads much easier so we have more time to focus on the technology instead of counting the amount of lines in a patch 🙂
carb0wn3d
By Chris Aniszczyk
So let me tell you a story about my new Macbook Pro and J2SE6. I was working with an application that required J2SE6 and when I was ready to do some self-hosting, I was greeted with this:
My first impression was like… oh no, what a newbie I am… I forgot about the carbon and 64-bit JVM issue. The only funny thing I got out of it was a new word for my lexicon to describe my situation: ‘carb0wn3d’ (credit to Kevin Barnes of the SWT team ;p).
However, never fear, there are good ways to deal with this issue for now. At least in my case, I have cases where I need to do development and test on multiple platforms anyway. VMWare Fusion allows me to do this very well and it even integrates well into my desktop:
Cool huh? Easy multi-platform testing for me now 😉
Anyone have better suggestions besides waiting or hacking on the SWT Cocoa port 🙂