Next to shampoo-and-conditioner 2-in-1, the JDT classpath container is arguably the best invention of the last 100 years.
-Wassim Melhem, PDE Lead

Fact or fiction? Let’s hope bug 182537 gets resolved soon as someone popped into #eclipse today inquiring about bug 109137 today. Given Wassim’s comment, would it be possible for this to make it into 3.3 before the end of June? If the JDT team wants to beat companies like Pert Plus (my personal shampoo of choice) and Head & Shoulders and show that they are the number one invention of the last century, they better get on it.

I think these statistics speaks for themselves. ;P

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go back on IRC. ;)

Bug 180773 is certainly nothing to get all excited about, but I’ve at long last finally been able to contribute something to the base Eclipse platform. This will be a bug to remember in my many years to come.

After having discussed the matter that arose yesterday with Scott, he decided to do a rebuild of 3.3M6. I just tested my example code with the new build and it seems to be working. So go get the new build and give the framework a spin.

I have just finished writing a tutorial for Eclipse’s wiki that details how you would go about creating a bot with the new APIs that Chris and Scott worked on. Since I started hacking on the code a little too late, a critical bug fix that I had committed to CVS HEAD could not make it to ECF’s 1.0.0M6 build. So as stated in the tutorial, if you would like to try the code out, please get the code from CVS HEAD.

On Sunday, I attended the Committer and Project Boot Camp which covered “groundskeeping” information that was geared towards new Eclipse committers. While a lot of the information was “given” and/or “trivial”, there was some stuff that proved to be useful such as the legal process and a little about the “Eclipse Process”.

In the evening, I attended Ian’s blogger party where I met…well, as the name would imply, a few famous bloggers.

More to come later as time permits.

So it’s finally time for my panel. Well, not exactly, it’s still about six hours away. And again, I am sitting at the registration hall right now, leeching the power strip so that I can stay online. I was able to meet some fine IRC accomplices (in order of when, if my memory serves me right) Nitin Dahyabhai (nitind), Gunnar Wagenknecht (kreismeister), Benjamin Pasero (benowar), Chris Aniszczyk (zx), Tod Creasey (TodC), Benjamin Muskalla (benny`work), Markus Kuppe (lemmy), Paul Webster (paulweb515), and Kim Moir (kmoir).

At the moment, some of us are thinking about jacking a table at lunch (removing the “Table Topic” and putting our own), we’ll see how that goes.

I am typing this as I sit in the registration area right now. I have registration duties all day tomorrow, so if you’re registering tomorrow (instead of today), you may be in the line that I’ve been assigned to. Since I’ll be taking care of that, I’ll have little to report about on tomorrow’s events…with the exception of the BOF meetings.

EclipseCon 2007 is right around the corner. As aforementioned (or maybe not, I don’t quite remember now), I will be leaving on Saturday and returning on Wednesday morning (hopefully in time for my ACTSCI 221 midterm at 0830, oh ho).

I will be blogging regularly during that time frame, so if you give a damn, I’d recommend that you click ‘refresh’ on your RSS readers often to get my latest updates. I certainly do intend to blog at least once a day, so while I’m sure most of you don’t check this everyday (since I don’t blog everyday and since I rarely say anything that is so interesting that it warrants your immediate attention), it would be in your best interests to do so during that period of time (again, that is, if you give a damn).

I have not got Gallery setup just yet, but will definitely get to it since I’ll obviously be taking some photographs while I’m there.

Yesterday night, I committed the code for my MSN protocol implementation named “Gokigenyou” (WWWJDIC definition: ご機嫌よう; 御機嫌よう 【ごきげんよう】 (int) How do you do?; Nice to meet you; adieu; farewell) and its ECF implementation code into CVS. The two projects in question are org.hantsuki.gokigenyou and org.eclipse.ecf.provider.msn.

The basic functionality of sending and receiving messages is there but that’s really about it. The packet parsing code is horrid and really should be rewritten in all honesty. However, if you’re feeling adventurous and all, feel free to do a CVS checkout and poke around with it. And of course, by all means, please file bugs and enhancement requests.