For those who missed out on the deal last time, one of my favorite Eclipse t-shirts is back in stock:
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Posts Tagged with “eclipse”
Fly the Good Times
By Chris Aniszczyk
I finally made it back from Eclipse Forum India. I think I have had enough Kingfisher beer to last another year and I also found my new favorite Indian-based airline, Kingfisher airlines. The airline has the awesome motto of “fly the good times” 🙂
On a serious note, I’m pleased to report that the conference was very enjoyable with enthusiastic attendees curious about Eclipse technology. If I were to change one thing, I would love to see an Eclipse-specific conference in India by 2010. What I mean by that is we currently have the well-organized EclipseCon 2008 and Eclipse Summit Europe conferences… why not expand into Asia a bit with an Eclipse Summit India :)?
Oh, if anyone has recommendations for in-ear headphones… let me know… I’m currently looking at the Shure E3c and Etymotic ER6i. My old pair of headphones has finally bit the dust and I’m looking for an upgrade 🙂
links for 4-8-08
By Chris Aniszczyk
The jetlag is causing blogger’s writing block for me so I will post links instead 🙂
- An EclipseDay at Google’s HQ is being planned
- ANTLRv3 IDE switches to the EPL license and releases a new version
- PDE Incubator is starting two new work areas
- Declarative Services (DS) Tooling
- Product Customization (tooling for Equinox Transforms)
- A call for community participation from p2
- VoiceObjects releases some Eclipse love for the telecommunications industry
- Curl joins the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In Member from the RIA space
- Wayne Beaton and I and spreading the Eclipse love at Eclipse Forum India 2008 this week
- Two Eclipse project creation reviews are coming up
eRCP in OSGi Standardization?
By Chris Aniszczyk
For those of you who don’t pay attention to mailing lists closely… there’s been a request for feedback on standardizing eRCP in OSGi. Yes you read that right, there are people wanting to standardize eRCP in OSGi to help with adoption. There are some large backers for this proposal… Sprint, ProSyst, Nokia, and IBM.
What are my thoughts? Well, besides the quirks of reverse-specing something… it seems like a good idea. However, I’m still a bit uneasy with where the control lies… does this specification imply that the OSGi community gets to dictate what is in eRCP from now on? What impact does this have on the RCP stack controlled by the Eclipse community? Does the eRCP project in Eclipse become the reference implementation, similar to how Equinox is the reference implementation for OSGi?
Cool stuff… it’s amazing to see the excitement around OSGi and eRCP these days!
Eclipse Hyperlink Magic
By Chris Aniszczyk
All I can say, thank you for whoever put this little feature in for 3.4M6:
I didn’t notice this mentioned in the New and Noteworthy, but this little feature alone will save me a ton of time since I need to jump to properties files quite a bit. In the past, this was time consuming… you’d jump to the declaration and then do some fishing to find the properties file entry.
Thanks!
Eclipse Regional Communities, Austin Edition
By Chris Aniszczyk
I finally got around to starting an Austin Eclipse Regional Community. Forgive me for taking so long. If you’re in Austin, please sign up on the mailing list!
In the small group of Eclipse Platform committers based Austin, we tend to go for an “Eclipse lunch” on Wednesday or every other Wednesday. We are opening up this fine tradition of Eclipse luncheons to the public in Austin. We will be doing these Eclipse luncheons every other Wednesday, with the first one starting tomorrow at Mandola’s Market @ noon. It’s a fairly central location to try to accommodate everyone… it should even be close enough for those cool Nokia people who have a nice office downtown.
Since I’m a big fan of beer and talk to Germans frequently, I plan on doing a monthly “Eclipse Stammtisch” in Austin. I still have yet to plan that one… but expect it to be towards the end of the month at a place with a lot of beer on tap.
So if you have time tomorrow, come to the Eclipse luncheon to chat and eat some food! If you’re not in Austin, how about starting your own Eclipse regional community?
Open-source Natural Selection
By Chris Aniszczyk
The Eclipse project ecosystem is an interesting place… it’s like a large playground with monkey bars, tether ball and swing sets. This playground is also full of diverse participants. However, what happens when two children in this playground fight? For example, two children both want to play in the same sandbox but there’s only room for one due to their egos or some political reasons. Does one kid push the other out of the sandbox, do both go blind by kicking sand in each others eyes or do they just happily play together?
I bring this issue up (and cheesy metaphor) because we will have another case of this type of competition soon within the Eclipse project ecosystem… and I just wanted to hear people’s opinions.
In the past, we had this happen with two Subversion projects (Subclipse and Subversive)… one was left standing… and in the end, were we better off with this type of competition? Did the community win or lose on this one? You decide 🙂
Personally, I’ve always been a big fan of natural selection and Darwinian evolution:
I say, let open-source projects figure things out as long as they don’t kick sand in the eyes of people living outside their sandbox. In the end, the better project should win or the competing projects will find a way to work together.
Adieu Eclipse, Hello Microsoft
By Chris Aniszczyk
The handsome Sam Ramji at EclipseCon convinced me to head over the OSS Lab at Microsoft.
How can you say no to such a “center of excellence” and some cute penguins:
Adieu Eclipse.
Hello Microsoft open-source innovation, interoperability and technology research.
3.4M6 is out!
By Chris Aniszczyk
Check out the impressive list of New and Noteworthy items.
I recommend “bleeding-edge” developers adopt this build as soon as possible to allow for feedback on some of the new stuff that was dropped (e.g., p2, api tools). The Platform team deserves a lot of credit for getting this out the door considering, updating, building, launching, self-hosting, exporting etc… all had to be reworked for the new provisioning story.
Cheers!
Funny Dialog Messages
By Chris Aniszczyk
After doing the M6 clearance pass for PDE this morning, I’ve been working on setting up a new machine to dual-boot and I came across this gem-stone of a warning message:
I had this one come up directly afterwards…
Don’t move that keyboard or mouse, you may interrupt my installer somehow…!
*sigh*
It looks like it’s funny dialog day… this is almost as funny as some of the Lotus Notes messages you can stumble across:
If you ever see a message in Eclipse that’s stupid or doesn’t make sense, please file a bug.