I had a great Eclipse Summit this year - and I heard similar things from other people. I had a chance to meet and talk with friends, colleagues and new acquaintances, and to see a lot of really good presentations. Of the presentations I saw, these were my personal top three. Number 3 on my list was Chris Frost's talk about using Snaps with Virgo....
Read MoreHere are the slides from my "Eclipse RAP - What's new in Helios?" talk, which I gave at the Bay Area Demo Camp in June. They capture the most interesting novelties of the RAP 1.3 release. You can find even more details in the full release notes. I want to thank Oracle and AvantSoft for hosting and organizing the event. If you are interested in future Eclipse events...
Read MoreDid you ever wanted to know how features find their way into Eclipse and became a part of a huge release like Eclipse Helios? What role do committers play? What is the part of the community? How do different projects collaborate with each other? For all of you Benjamin Muskalla and I will give the answer on the Eclipse Helios DemoCamp in Darmstadt on July the 14th. If...
Read MoreEver been to Mannheim? If not - this is your chance to visit this lovely city. For the Helios release, the guys behind the majug² (Mannheimer Java user Group) invite everybody to the Helios Democamp in June. And as Ian already found out: Yes, we love our DemoCamps! It's always great to have technical discussions over a frosty beverage! [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="422" caption="Watertower by flamouroux"][/caption] At the moment,...
Read MoreWe're all looking forward to talk about EclipseRT, Equinox and RAP at the DemoCamps around the world. In case you want to catch us and talk about Eclipse and related topics, just join one of the DemoCamps near you. Besides many other interesting talks, we'll mostly cover EclipseRT, RAP and p2. Ottawa, ON, Canada - November 24 - Jeff McAffer (EclipseRT) Braunschweig/Hanover, Germany - November 25 -...
Read MoreThis Thursday we had a great Galileo DemoCamp in Portland. Pictures from the event are on Gabe's blog and Darin has posted a summary of all presentations. Thanks to the nice folks at Instantiations and the Eclipse Foundation Portland for putting this together! You'll find the slides of my presentation 'RAP and the Eclipse Download Wizard' below: To learn more about creating apps for RCP and RAP from a single...
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