Monthly Archives: March 2005

Eclipse Easter Egg: Heap Monitor

Here is a nice little Easter Egg. OK, not exactly, since you do have to download it by itself. But it is written by the Platform UI Team and if Eclipse weren’t so darn pluggable, it probably would be included. … Continue reading

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Eclipse Mac tops 200 members!

The Eclipse Mac user group is now over 200 members strong. We started the group back on October 29th, 2004. We’ve added 81 members this month and there are still a few days until April, bringing the total membership up … Continue reading

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The state of Java on Mac OS X

James Duncan Davidson wrote about the state of Java on Mac OS X and I saw a comment that was dead-on: I agree Apple is focused more on server-side Java on the Mac, but keep in mind that there is … Continue reading

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Eclipse 3.0.2 is out

Get it (Eclipse 3.0.2) while it’s hot! Not convinced yet? Consider that 3.0.2 contains 337 bug fixes. Note that it always takes a little while for it to propagate to the mirrors, so if your favorite mirror doesn’t have it, … Continue reading

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Yay – Kim’s got a blog!

Kim Horne, who gave a nice presentation on “Addressing UI Scalability in Eclipse” at EclipseCon 2005, has just started an Eclipse-focused blog, titled Kim’s Eclipse Musings. I enjoyed the session quite a bit due to her sense of humor. She … Continue reading

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Eclipse 3.0.2 due on Wednesday

Eclipse 3.0.2, which contains 70 bug fixes over 3.0.1 will come out next Wednesday, March 23. It was originally scheduled to release today, but is being kept in the lab for a bit longer for a bit more testing. You … Continue reading

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PowerPC inside

Mac OS X runs on PowerPC (G4s and G5s). Linus Torvalds runs Linux on a dual 2Ghz PowerMac G5. Nintendo Gamecube is based on PowerPC, a customized design named Gekko. Sony has licensed the Power Architecture. This has resulted in … Continue reading

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The Eclipse revolution will be persisted (in a SQL database)

Eclipse seems like this big snowball rolling down the software industry hill, picking up code, contributors, and users as it rolls along. It has gotten much bigger in the past year and a good chunk of that snowball is SQL-flavored. … Continue reading

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Want to see more programming languages supported in Eclipse?

One of the interesting things I noticed at EclipseCon 2005 was that developers want to see more programming languages supported in Eclipse. Currently, the JDT which lets users develop Java code, is bundled with the base Eclipse. This is the … Continue reading

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Eclipse Easter Egg: Plugin Dependencies View

One of the great things about EclipseCon is that you get to talk one on one with the Eclipse Committers. Most of the time, you do not have access to the talented developers that write the software that you use … Continue reading

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