Ever curious to see how PlanetEclipse has been doing?
Looks like steady growth over time 🙂
Case Sensitivity Shenanigans
By Chris Aniszczyk
I’m currently stuck in the DFW airport which is like being in prison for owners of laptops that need a battery charge. The amount of power outlets (near where you can get a beer or some food) for personal use in the international terminal can be counted on one hand. I feel like I could make a million dollars with some extension cords and a powerstrip.
On the bright side, one of the trickiest PDE bugs has just been closed. It dealt with case sensitivity issues in the manifest editor. The framework doesn’t care whether your header is Bundle-ClassPath or Bundle-Classpath, and PDE should be flexible enough to handle these cases 🙂
Furthemore, developers can now use the enhanced JFace Text WordRule to deal with case sensitivity issues in their own editors.
Off to EFE 2007
By Chris Aniszczyk
I’m off to Eclipse Forum Europe early tomorrow morning. It looks like it’s going to be a great conference due to the number of interesting people speaking. Plus, I’m kind of excited about this JAX Jogging thing, who would’ve thought, conferences and exercise? Usually conferences go with what Donald Smith pictured 😉
If anyone at the conference or in Germany wants to discuss PDE, Eclipse or committer issues over a frosty beverage, I’m always available 🙂 For committers, take this as an opportunity to talk to a committer representative face-to-face with your issues. As a committer representative, I’m trying to hard to get a feel with what committers have problems with. I have my own issues, but I like to hear it from other committers 😉
See ya there!
Aptana + RadRails + RDT
By Chris Aniszczyk
For those who don’t know, Aptana is a really cool web IDE (mostly focused on Ajax related development), so cool that I’ve managed to convert a few web development colleagues to Eclipse. Aptana has recently announced that it will merge RadRails and RDT into Aptana itself (they also hired the respective developers it seems). This type of M&A activity is a good sign for the Eclipse community as it makes sense sometimes to consolidate efforts.
GEF adds a little Zest to the project ;)
By Chris Aniszczyk
You know, I jump on a plane and Wassim calls for my impeachment 🙂
Jokes aside, it looks like the Zest project will finally make its way into GEF. This is great news for the GEF project along for people interested in creating visualizations in Eclipse. So, look forward to seeing Zest in GEF in the future, for now, feel free to browse the snippets.
It’s also important to note that Zest only depends on Draw2D which is tiny. I filed a bug against GEF to componetize the project a bit better so it’s easier to use Zest/Draw2D as they have minimal dependencies.
Eclipse, IRC and ECF
By Chris Aniszczyk
In the honorable tradition of me trying to get more Eclipse people on IRC, I’d like to announce that the ECF team has come up with a cool IRC bot that could be useful for committers. Besides the coolness of being built on all Eclipse-technology (it may be the first OSGi-based IRC bot; the hell with eggdrop and its Tcl scripts), it has useful features that are described on an Eclipse wiki entry. The current Eclipse committers on IRC use the bot as a way to quickly communicate with Eclipse newcomers on common questions or even as an easy way to get at Eclipse bugs.
Call me an old school open-source developer, but I like my IRC and IRC bots (especially when they are Eclipse-based) 😉
PDE Gone Wild
By Chris Aniszczyk
In the next I-build, you’ll see that PDE‘s Plug-in Dependencies view has been upgraded (thank you Brian Bauman).
Oh my, it’s now easy to see how things are wired by that crazy framework!
Furthermore, it’s now possible to get a state of the [PDE] state. For example, if you had a bundle that wasn’t happy (In Eclipse Update terminology), you would see something like this:
Enjoy!
Eclipse Google SOC Projects Announced
By Chris Aniszczyk
The list of Eclipse-related projects accepted into the Google Summer of Code program has been posted.
Check it out, there are some interesting projects out there. This year’s SOC program for Eclipse will be exciting because there are a lot of faces you may recognize on the mentor list (new and old alike). I’m personally all about that Plug-in Dependency Visualization project 🙂
I went to EclipseCon and all I got was this shirt…
By Chris Aniszczyk
I was cleaning out my closet yesterday due to some moving efforts and came across a couple of shirts…
These two shirts were the shirts committers received at the last two EclipseCons. I have to say that it’s been progressively worse at each EclipseCon… so I’m calling the fashion police out at the next EclipseCon to make sure committers receive shirts that they would actually wear 🙂 Furthermore, without Yahoo! Answers, I would have no idea what to wear with a denim shirt.