For those who want to get an incredibly early start on submitting abstracts to EclipseWorld 2007, here’s the link. The last EclipseWorld was a great conference to attend and a lot of the talks were “from the trenches.” A sad note for me is that the conference was moved from beautiful Cambridge, MA to Reston, VA :/
It’s bundles all the way down
By Chris Aniszczyk
It looks like we have a comprehensive article on how to use base Eclipse to work with eRCP now. Why should you look at using eRCP? I find reading David Beers’ blog post on ‘Eclipsing Java on Mobile Phones’ helpful. So helpful that I actually want to write a bug against eRCP to include some of that information on their website.
Where in the world is my Class?
By Chris Aniszczyk
I did some work in 3.3M4 that allows you to flag missing exported packages (quickfix will be in 3.3M5):
In my opinion, the problem with this particular feature is that the default is IGNORE which means most people won’t know about it, therefore won’t use it (except for those people who have felt the pain of forgetting to export a new package). What does the community think there, should the default level be set to WARNING? This would inherently make everyone follow ‘The Eclipse Way’ (best practice ;p?) by exporting all their packages. However, the idealist in me thinks people will be exporting all their packages anyway and marking the proper ones internal. If you have some thoughts on this issue, please comment 🙂
Eclipse Cheatsheet Article
By Chris Aniszczyk
Being stuck at an airport provides the perfect time to blog about a new article from the PDE UI team (should we publish this at Eclipse Corner?) that discusses our improved cheatsheet development support. Why use cheatsheets? Cheatsheets provide an easy way to cut down the learning curve for your end users. I think the tools are there now (no more excuses!) for more Eclipse projects to create cheatsheets. So please pressure your local Eclipse project representative to include cheatsheets with their projects 🙂
EclipseCon Swag
By Chris Aniszczyk
There’s been some light discussion lately about EclipseCon swag (inspired by Kathy Sierra’s post) and I’m curious what the community thinks here. Last year, we were blessed with the logo-infested t-shirts that work quite well as rags (I use mine to clean my shiny carbon-fiber road bike). I think the right swag could be used as an effective marketing tool for Eclipse and this is one area the foundation needs some help with in my opinion.
I’m personally a big fan of the coveted Eclipse black fleece and Eclipse installed stickers. I fully expect Wayne at this year’s EclipseCon to hit every laptop he sees with those Eclipse installed stickers.
PDE and Felix
By Chris Aniszczyk
For those who use the other framework ;), Apache Felix now has been integrated into PDE using the new pluggable framework extension point mechanism. There are now no excuses from using your favorite OSGi framework implementation with Eclipse’s sexy tooling (PDE).
Welcome Lawrence & Andrew
By Chris Aniszczyk
I was doing some triage on Planet Eclipse bugs today and noticed there are two new committers that have started a blog: Andrew Niefer and Lawrence Mandel. Please do your best to welcome these guys as one of my new year’s resolutions was to get more Eclipse committers blogging and on IRC 🙂
Eclipse 3.3M4
By Chris Aniszczyk
Eclipse 3.3M4 is out, along with its new and noteworthy. PDE brings 3.3 application model templates for everyone 🙂
My EclipseCon 2007 Long Talk / Panel Votes
By Chris Aniszczyk
Here are some of my favorite votes for talks / panels. I encourage everyone to pitch in their two cents if they have any 🙂
OSGi Track
Long Talk: Getting Hooked on the Equinox Framework
Panel: When PDE Becomes BDE: Are We There Yet?
Panel: What does the future hold for OSGi?
Fundamentals Track
Long Talk: Ubiquitous Eclipse: Equinox everywhere
Long Talk: Introduction to Eclipse Data Binding
Long Talk: Making the most of the Eclipse Compare Framework
Panel: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Eclipse User Assistance!
Modeling Track
Long Talk: EMFT JET: Building code generators to support Model Driven Development
Long Talk: Modeling Generics with Ecore
Mashup Track
Long Talk: Experiences working on RSSOwl 2 based on the RCP
Long Talk: RCP with Eclipse, Mozilla and OpenOffice: the giant mashup
Panel: The 2006 Google Summer of Code at Eclipse
Business Track
Long Talk: Working with the IT Press
Long Talk: Teaching Bean Counters to Love Eclipse As Much as Geeks Do
Long Talk: Making the World’s Best and Brightest Developers Happy to Help You
Panel: Intellectual Property Issues and the Mixing/Blending of Commercial and Open Source Software
C++ Track
Long Talk: C/C++ Source Code Introspection Using the CDT
Long Talk: Assembling your open C and C++ workbench
Data Track
Panel: Following the Data: Eclipse Data Tools Platform
Mobile Track
Long Talk: eRCP – Ready for prime time!
PDE <3 Ctrl+o
By Chris Aniszczyk
For 3.3M4, PDE brings Christmas early to everyone by supporting ctrl+o on its manifest / plug-in editors. See the picture below for an example.
The PDE team wishes our source editor users very happy holidays 😉