Monthly Archives: March 2005

EclipseCon 2005 may be over…

…but I’m still going to blog about it. The pace of the conference seemed to pick up day by day and there was less and less time to blog. The keynotes started at 8AM and there were BOFs after the … Continue reading

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The Eclipse Phenomenon – Lee Nackman

This keynote covers the history of Eclipse. Started off with a vision, which was discussed within IBM. In November 1998, the OTI team was given the go ahead because they had experience building several generations of IDEs. Also, another IBM … Continue reading

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RCP plenary

Nick Edgar and Jeff McAffer are presenting. They’re relating RCP releaeses to popular TV shows. Eclipse 2.1 RCP – Monster Garage – this was hacks by pioneers who stripped down the Eclipse SDK to create a platform for building non-IDE … Continue reading

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GEF session

Randy and Pratik are presenting again, this time in the big room (where the keynotes/plenaries are held.) New in 3.1: ShortestPathConnectionRouter – cool on a computer science standpoint, but also useful if you want to automatically route connections around shapes … Continue reading

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Urs Hoelzle – A look behind the scenes at Google – liveblog

8:10AM – Google’s mission is much bigger than search. It is to make the world’s information available in a usable and accessible way. That’s a huge mission. Urs is going to talk about Google scales its infrastructure. Google uses commodity … Continue reading

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Eclipse on Mac demos

Here’s the PowerMac G5 (hidden) with 30″ Cinema Display and 15″ PowerBook, both running Eclipse that you can try out at EclipseCon that I talked about in my previous blog post. They’re over at the Apple booth staffed by friendly … Continue reading

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EclipseCon on Mac

Today, one of the big themes was Patterns contained in the Keynote by Tim O’Reilly titled “Open Source Business Design Patterns” and the Plenary by Erich Gamma and John Weigand titled “The Eclipse Way“. But another big theme, at least … Continue reading

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Safely Manipulating Files in Eclipse

Thanks to Kai-Uwe Maetzel for the code and the presentation. Here are the useful nuggets that I got: Use the new FileBuffers API from within org.eclipse.core.filebuffers. This was derived from the Text widget. Most of the API is concerned with … Continue reading

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Any extension point browsers out there?

I’m sitting in the “Extend web tools server tooling for your application server” session and it occurred to me that it finding extension points is a bit difficult currently. It would be good if there was some sort of extension … Continue reading

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End-to-end RCP Applications

One of the nice things about RCP is that you can pull in selected plug-ins into RCP from any of the Eclipse projects to extend RCP. David Orme showed us this by pulling in the org.eclipse.ide plug-in to get workbench … Continue reading

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