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Moving on to become an Eclipse consumer…

After some six years or so of contributing to Eclipse both full-time at work and part-time during my undergrad at the University of Waterloo, I must announce today that I will be switching over to Rational Team Concert’s Source Control … Continue reading

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More EclipseCon 2011 slides online…

Someone from my talk on Thursday asked me where they could get my slides, I have uploaded them and they are now available online. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask on our e4-dev mailing list!

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EclipseCon 2011, day one…

I haven’t been at an Eclipse conference since EclipseCon 2008 and Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 so it was great to see everybody again. As someone that’s been both a student and a mentor for Google’s Summer of Code program, it … Continue reading

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Test your properties…

With the resolution of bug 162079, the manner (and speed) in which the ‘Properties’ view reacts to one’s selection has been altered. Please test your plug-ins against 3.7M4 to ensure that any properties or property pages you are contributing to … Continue reading

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OSGi, language packs, and interval notations…

Dunge: Hello there, sorry for the noob question. I installed Eclipse for Java (Helios) and JDK update 21, I’m trying to use the Blackberry SDK but when I install it it say I require org.eclipse.jdt.debug [3.5.0,3.6.0) first. I tried to … Continue reading

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Define “Helios”…

When someone asks you “What is Helios?” or any one of those other release train names, how do you respond? It is a question that comes up on IRC pretty often. In the past I’ve said something like “it’s a … Continue reading

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Eclipse is to IBM, as an egg is to a chicken…

Actually, I’m not sure if that’s really a good analogy or not, but anyway… opafan48: i have an issue with eclipse, i cant stand its connection to ibm, thats why i try to mind it.. how would u deal with … Continue reading

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Staging changes, one by one…

It’s been exactly one month since I bickered about the EGit plug-in and I must say that it’s really come a long way. I would like to thank the developers for their hard work, their employers for letting them work … Continue reading

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EGit and me…

You’d think that for someone like me that started life as a random contributor that I’d be pretty thrilled about this whole distributed Eclipse.org Git shebang thingamajig. But, to be quite honest, I’m pretty…indifferent about the whole ordeal. I’m guessing … Continue reading

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EclipseCon, a very elusive conference…

agliodbs: does anyone know where the conference is? rgrunber: agliodbs: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/ if you go there it should say in the top right corner.. Mar 22-25th Santa Clara, California briandealwis: agliodbs: It’s at the Santa Clara Hyatt (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4887218/CA/Santa-Clara/eclipse-con-2010/Hyatt-Regency-Santa-Clara/) agliodbs: briandealwis: thanks … Continue reading

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