Category Archives: Eclipse

Eclipse opening in Illinois

SourceGear is looking for an Eclipse Developer over in Champaign, Illinois.

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Eclipse 3.1M7 released

Like clockwork, the Eclipse team has released Eclipse 3.1 M7, which is the last milestone build before the official Eclipse 3.1 (which should come out in late June.) There’s a few new features, but I think the main focus in … Continue reading

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Everybody loves Command-Space

I’m running Tiger full-time now and its great. Spotlight is one of the best new features in it and I’m looking forward to more and more programs becoming Spotlight enabled (like VoodooPad). I’ve got an app I’ve been working on … Continue reading

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Java 5 for OS X 10.4 Tiger is here

Apple released Java 5 for OS X today. (Also known confusingly as both “Java 2 SE 5.0 Release 1″ by Apple and as Java 1.5 to Java developers who are used to the 1.x versioning scheme.) It only runs on … Continue reading

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Gauging market demand for different IDEs via SimplyHired.com

I was perusing the popular delicious links and found a new job site: SimplyHired, which bills itself as “building the largest job database on the planet.” Its pretty fast and lets you do searches without any commitment. So, I searched … Continue reading

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Why Sun should join forces with the Eclipse Foundation

The Butler Group recently wrote an opinion article titled: Sun and Eclipse – A Marriage Made in Heaven. I think they make a good case as to why Sun should join forces with the Eclipse Foundation. They note that: The … Continue reading

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Why did I add Cocoa and Rails?

Astute readers may have noticed that the title of this blog changed this past month from “Eclipse/Java Programming on Mac OS X” to “Cocoa, Eclipse, and Rails Programming on Mac OS X”. Good thing I didn’t put in Panther in … Continue reading

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64 bit JVM, here we come

I’m planning my WWDC trip and I noticed that the preliminary schedules are up now. BTW, if you’re planning to go, I’d book soon, since the early registration is ending soon. One of the sessions caught my eye: “64-bit Java … Continue reading

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Ian’s got a blog

In case you don’t know who I’m talking about, the Ian that I’m referring to is Ian Skerrett, Director of Marketing with the Eclipse Foundation. He’s got a blog now, so check it out. His latest post shows you all … Continue reading

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Eclipse Mac now listed in Eclipse Community Resources

The Eclipse Mac user group is now listed in the Eclipse Community Resources. Here’s a screenshot: Thanks to Susan from the Eclipse News team for the link!

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