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Microsoft rolls Windows 7, Azure into Eclipse
Blog Microsoft has announced the integration of Windows 7, Azure and Silverlight tools into the open source Eclipse development platform. The joint project with Canadian company Tasktop Technologies and French company Soyatec was unveiled at the Eclipse...
[October 28, 2009, 13:06]
Microsoft's open source side-step
Blog Microsoft has announced the release of a plug-in for Eclipse which adds Silverlight development capabilities to the open source IDE. The plug in, Eclipse4SL, is itself available under the Eclipse Public License, an OSI-approved open source licence.
[March 14, 2009, 12:15]
Double up on databases
Blog So would you believe it (my guess is that you will) if I highlight the fact that both Sybase and Embarcadero last week announced free versions of their Eclipse-based database tools? All good stuff I’m sure, but I wonder how these companies...
[January 28, 2008, 10:55]
No BlackBerry Crumble: RIM’s first DevCon Serves up a Tasty Pie
Blog So as not to disappoint, there was indeed a new BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse for creating and testing wireless apps from the Eclipse (IDE). With so many developers these days saying that Eclipse is their, “IDE of choice,” - this must be a...
[October 22, 2008, 8:54]
Can code crunchers be GUI gurus too?
Blog The Eclipse BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) open source project is, apparently, “The only top-level Eclipse Foundation project dedicated to Business Intelligence. Having recently worked with Sun to provide a surface-level overview...
[December 8, 2008, 12:00]
Are developer ecosystems a measure of a product’s worth?
Blog Looking further afield for comment, I spoke to Ian Skerrett who is director of marketing at Eclipse Foundation who told me that, “I think it depends on the software product. If you look at Eclipse, Firefox, Linux, Apache web server and even Windows...
[January 5, 2010, 10:24]
What to expect from IBM Rational Software Developer Conference 2008
Blog This is a scalable Eclipse-based team collaboration platform with transparency at its core. This is a middleware infrastructure technology if you like, this is not a replacement for Eclipse. Having attended and reported on this event since 2004 I...
[June 1, 2008, 18:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog At 19:00 hours that evening, there'll be a lunar eclipse -- and at the same time, hovering above Queen's House at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich Park in London will be Sky Ear. Friday 9/4/2004
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
Symbian, GPL tension and 'bright lines'
Blog It's an interesting read, but my editor noticed a disparity between two statements of Wood's, viz: a straight reading of the GPL says if you link to other software then that other software falls under the same licence.in reference to why Symbian...
[October 23, 2008, 17:14]
Open source protects the innocent bystanders in corporate battles
Blog Both companies have a large influence on what happens in the non-Microsoft development world, and between them have Java toolchains more or less sewn up — Eclipse, originally an IBM project, and NetBeans, Sun's own IDE, have seen off most...
[March 25, 2009, 11:20]
Software Scrabble: D.E.V.E.L.O.P.E.R.
Blog Devious Employees Voluntarily Entrap Losers Over Potential Eclipse Rollout Here’s a bit of software application development scrabble for you to serve as Friday down time. Hopefully this comes with enough of a thought-provoking nudge that you might...
[August 21, 2008, 23:04]
What to expect from Sun's JavaOne 2009
Blog My best guess is that he'll echo the statement I heard from an Eclipse employee back in London who said, "We don't think Oracle would have acquired Java with the intent of harming the ecosystem in any way.
[June 1, 2009, 1:11]
RIM’s Top Picks for Developers
Blog TOOLS - there’s a new BlackBerry Java Development Environment (JDE) and a JDE Plug-in for Eclipse and Visual Studio. Despite the fact that I find the most compelling aspect of the BlackBerry to be the retro-style “Breakout” bricks and paddle game...
[June 23, 2008, 11:49]
Sybase breaks ‘new’ ground with ‘In-Database’ business analytics
Blog Sybase’s Joydeep Das also told me, “The supporting products for Sybase IQ 15.1 such as the Workspace Data Analytics IDE with Eclipse plug-ins for rapid schema and data lifecycle modeling, application development and debugging, as well as the data...
[July 14, 2009, 14:00]
Have OSS-inspired developer self-study techniques come of age?
Blog I usually start a project in Eclipse to organise such things under a package called ‘demo’ and a good book to have on your shelf for ideas and algorithms to implement here would be any of Robert Sedgewick's books on algorithms,” said Meeks.
[December 7, 2009, 7:36]
BlackBerry developer chief demos new services & prototype apps
Blog In terms of day-to-day development, the company has pushed for choice of developer tools to be widened and says that the current plug-in selection supports Eclipse, Java and there is new support for Adobe tools too.
[November 23, 2009, 7:30]
Software compliance & the marathon runner’s ‘wall’
Blog Only a week or so ago an SCCM company that I have known for years (the previously mentioned Perforce) releases another ‘enhanced’ version of its plug-in for Eclipse, which they hope will see release managers creating and maintaining multiple lines...
[April 9, 2009, 9:27]
JavaOne: the ‘best of the rest’ awards
Blog It has also provided a new plug-in called “Code Sleuth” that provides the Eclipse community with increased performance management and monitoring of Java software code. If you’ve been digging into ZDNet.co.uk’s coverage of JavaOne in its entirety by...
[May 7, 2008, 23:55]
Show blog day 2: IBM Rational Software Developer Conference 2008
Blog Then there was Instantiations Inc, who made a few waves (well, ripples I suppose) about its quality and productivity solutions for the Eclipse platform. Before I mention a few of the IBM partners that have proffered forth their wares this week, we...
[June 3, 2008, 23:47]
________ (fill in the blank) as POSIX Compatible
Blog Eclipse not good enough for ya? First of all I am not a POSIX specialist. I can't really claim to be a Windows 7 expert, yet. Thanks to Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX; I can say that its the craziest thing I've ever heard of.
[April 10, 2009, 14:19]
