Category Archives: Eclipse

Win in Halo and get an Eclipse feature

While planning my EclipseCon 2006 schedule, I ran across the Halo Feature Challenge which is during lunch on Tuesday. I thought this was some sort of thing where you go around and put rings on people’s heads because you love … Continue reading

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Going to EclipseCon 2006

I’m going to EclipseCon 2006 next week. I’m pretty excited. It will be my 4th in a row. There are only three EclipseCons you say? I offer up a classic blog posting: A brief history of EclipseCon. Anyways, if you’d … Continue reading

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Going to EclipseCon 2006

I’m going to EclipseCon again this year. It is again over in Silicon Valley, in Santa Clara, CA from March 20th to the 23rd. Its been a great conference these past four years. Well only two were official – but … Continue reading

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Eclipse tip: How to build features that require Java 5

So you’re trying to create an Update Site and you hit the Build or Build All button. This is depending on a feature which includes plug-ins that require Java 5. The build fails and it tells you that there are … Continue reading

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Sneak peek of SWT and Swing in Vista

Here’s a screenshot of Eclipse (using SWT) on Vista, courtesy of Carolyn MacLeod and Ed Burnette. And here’s NetBeans (using Swing) on Vista, courtesy of Chet Haase. Looks like Java UIs have a good future in Vista. I believe they’re … Continue reading

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EclipseWorld was a success

Looks like EclipseWorld was a success. I didn’t get a chance to go, even though it is on the same coast I am. Why do I say so? Well, from the most recent EclipseSource, the lead article was titled “Exuberance … Continue reading

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RCP from my readers

I got two comments from my readers recently on RCP: 1. Henry wrote “Why Eclipse RCP is going to rule the world“, giving 5 reasons. I agree with his arguments that Eclipse RCP is the ideal platform for building desktop … Continue reading

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Eclipse Mac: over 500 programmers served

The Eclipse Mac user group is humming along. Just a few months ago, we were at 200 members and now we’re at 523! This is great. And I didn’t even promote it at the Eclipse session at WWDC (although I … Continue reading

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Eclipse 3.1 released!

Hear ye, hear ye, Eclipse 3.1 has been released! It was officially released today June 28th, 2005 at 12:01PM EST. Get it at the Eclipse download page. As always, it takes a little while to propogate to the mirrors, so … Continue reading

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OSNews interviews Steve Northover

OSNews has an interesting interview with Steve Northover, the principal architect behind SWT. He’s an old Smalltalk veteran from OTI, which got acquired by IBM in the 90s. I think the interviewer brings out some good points: 1. SWT is … Continue reading

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