Only 1 more day until Eclipse Helios is release and we are down to my Top 2 features. Over the life of Eclipse (Jeff McAffer tells me that he's been working on Eclipse since 1999) a lot has changed. Eclipse started its life inside OTI/IBM. In November 2001 the Eclipse Consortium was announced and Eclipse was released as 'Open Source'. For the next few...
Read MoreGit has been gaining some traction in the Eclipse community as of late. From the birth of the EGit project at Eclipse and the recent approval of JGit to be hosted at Eclipse as a sub project of the EGit project, good things are coming. Why should you care about Git? Git is pretty popular these days as evident by some of the open source projects out...
Read MoreI used what little free time I had over the holidays to catch up on the recent developments in source control management systems, which have been quite interesting to follow. Especially the arrival of Distributed Version Control Systems has caused quite a buzz in the software development industry. Somehow Eclipse as a whole totally missed the SVN boat. Only in the last year has there been...
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