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February 19, 2008
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Running @ EclipseCon

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I’m so filled with joy that EclipseCon is coming up that I can’t contain it.

I’m really excited about the exercise activity (trail map) planned by Darin Swanson. According to Darin, there are lots of people signed up and there’s some goodies in store for people. It’s just amazing to see how far the running activity has gone after I nagged Darin to death (sorry!) to set something up like this at EclipseCon… hopefully more technical conferences will follow suit.

Most importantly, running at EclipseCon is a good way to help combat Donald Smith’s Dilemma:

Note: A word to the wise, anyone wearing an “Ask Me About” sticker gets you an extra drink ticket at the evening events 🙂

February 5, 2008
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EclipseCon 2008!

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Just a reminder that EclipseCon 2008 is coming up and it’s a good time to register before prices go up (don’t be that guy that registers on Valentine’s Day!).

I had the honor to be on the EclipseCon Program Committee this year which was quite a challenge given all the great talks submitted this year. I’m really proud of the Eclipse as a Platform and RCP tracks as it was a challenge trying to balance those two tracks. In terms of what I’m speaking about this year, check this out:

As always, I’ll be available to discuss open source and Eclipse over a frosty beverage. I hope to see you there!

January 30, 2008
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EclipseCon BOFs and the PDE Soiree

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Just a reminder that it’s now possible to submit BOF sessions (and posters) at EclipseCon. I’ve always enjoyed BOFs at EclipseCon and highly recommend people submit sessions.

PDE will be hosting its annual soiree to discuss what’s new in bundle development land, where people think we should be headed and how tooling keeps saving the runtime from itself when it invents new headers like Eclipse-BundleShape.

We’ll also consume a few drinks in honor of PDE, Eclipse and OSGi (virgin daiquiri’s for Wassim though).

January 2, 2008
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EclipseCon Hotels

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I just booked my hotel at EclipseCon and I thought I would just remind people that it’s a good time to book your hotel.

Why?

Every year I know people that book late and get stuck in a hotel that’s far away from the convention center and either have to take a shuttle or suffer a fate similar to what happens in Oregon Trail:

So if you don’t want to die of dysentery, stay at the Hyatt or Hilton 🙂

November 24, 2007
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links for 11-24-07

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PlanetEclipse is growing at a healthy rate:

Someone is trying to make Eclipse more like Emacs via the EclipseMail plug-in:

Zend is going to release a product, Zend Studio for Eclipse, soon based on PDT.

November 23, 2007
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PDE Does Singapore

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Well, I’m off on my Asia adventure today. This involves being on a plane for 24 hours but, I think it will be worth it once I get to talk Eclipse and plug-ins at JAX Asia next week. My offer of discussing Eclipse over a frosty beverage always stands if anyone is in the Singapore area 😉

A long trip on a plane for me can only mean one thing, productivity. I plan to squash some Eclipse bugday bugs on the plane ride, one of them being one of my favorite Eclipse pet peeves: wizards that suffer from amnesia. I also plan to work on some new articles that will discuss some plug-in development best practices that I’ve learned over the years and touch on some aspects of PDE that aren’t understood well (ie., the target editor, automated management of dependencies, plug-in search, etc…).

I’ve also been looking over EclipseCon submissions for the tracks I’m chairing. It’s going to be really tough to choose the long talks… there’s a lot of good submissions with not many slots to fill. There’s also some really good short talks and tutorial submissions this year. Why do you guys have to make it so hard :(?

On a side note, if you’re interested in a rich text editor in Eclipse, voice your support on this bug which aims to make the sexy editor out of the EPF project consumable for third parties. In case you want a sneak peak at the editor’s features, Philip Beauvoir has already done some work in this area to make the editor consumable in an RCP application.

Remember to rock the vote on Eclipse bugs you care about 🙂

November 19, 2007
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EclipseCon and Ganymede Splash

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Just another reminder for people that EclipseCon submissions close today! Please submit something while you still can!

In 3.4M4, it looks like Eclipse will get an updated splash screen:

Kind of cool, eh?

Now someone needs to recreate one of those wallpapers we used for Europa for Ganymede.

November 16, 2007
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Have you submitted something to EclipseCon?

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EclipseCon 2008 is closing submissions on Monday, November 19th so there’s not much time left to submit something. The PDE team has submitted its annual plug-in development tutorials:

Being on the EclipseCon Program Committee, I’m going to do my best to try something new this year with the tutorial order. I’m thinking that the introductory Plug-in Development tutorials done by the PDE team should take place in the morning. In the afternoon, there will be a tutorial on eRCP followed by one on RAP. This effectively would allow a tutorial attendee to get a taste of three different runtime environments that Eclipse targets:

  • Desktop (RCP)
  • Embedded (eRCP)
  • Server (RAP)

Where else can you do that? This also traces the evolution of Eclipse from just being some tooling platform to a viable runtime for various types of applications. It’s my hope that the tutorial attendees who went through this track of tutorials would come away that Eclipse isn’t just about tools anymore and that there’s a lot of power in reusing your skills and assets to develop against three different runtime environments. All of this in just one day!

Do people think this is a good idea? If so, I’ll see what I can do to make it happen.

Oh, and please submit something to EclipseCon if you haven’t already 🙂

September 27, 2007
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EclipseCon 2008 is Open

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EclipseCon 2008 is now open for submissions. I’m part of a few categories (“tracks”) this year and leading the Eclipse as a Platform track. If you have interesting uses of Eclipse as a platform, have enabling technology that allows Eclipse to grow further as a runtime, or even have interesting stories to tell about how you or your company used Eclipse as a runtime, please submit something! I hope to see something from cool projects like the Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) or the embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) that explain their usage of Eclipse as a runtime.

April 9, 2007
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I went to EclipseCon and all I got was this shirt…

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I was cleaning out my closet yesterday due to some moving efforts and came across a couple of shirts…

These two shirts were the shirts committers received at the last two EclipseCons. I have to say that it’s been progressively worse at each EclipseCon… so I’m calling the fashion police out at the next EclipseCon to make sure committers receive shirts that they would actually wear 🙂 Furthermore, without Yahoo! Answers, I would have no idea what to wear with a denim shirt.

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