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Tag Archives: Eclipse
Life with Linux: More apps
I’ve been working on tuning the Linux installation I have on my work Lenovo Thinkpad T400, and it’s time to add a few more applications. I’ll break them down by category. User Interface One feature I really like on OS … Continue reading
Good night, CPL
It’s time for one less open source license. The Common Public License (CPL) is now officially deprecated and replaced by the Eclipse Public License (EPL). This is evolution in practice. The EPL was created after experience with the CPL as … Continue reading
Ten challenges and priorities for free and open source in 2008
Last week I started a series of blog entries about my personal view of challenges and priorities for this year. That first entry was about open standards and today I’m going to look at free and open source (FOSS). Incidentally, … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Open Source, Standards
Tagged Eclipse, GNU, Linux, Moodle, OpenOffice.org, Sakai
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links for 2007-05-03
Music Joan Baez bumped from Walter Reed concert – USATODAY.com “Folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez says she doesn’t know why she was not allowed to perform for recovering soldiers recently at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as she … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News, Open Source, Politics / Government, Standards, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Architecture, Building, China, Dell, Eclipse, Linux, Microsoft, ODF, Office, Second Life, Ubuntu
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links for 2007-01-09
Ben Ramsey – Blog Archive – Zend Executable Debugger Eclipse Plugin (tags: eclipse php) ‘Second Life’ software becomes open-source | Tech News on ZDNet “Linden Lab on Monday released as open-source software the viewer used to access Second Life and … Continue reading
links for 2006-12-12
Open Source Has Ubuntu Linux overtaken Mac OS X as Google Trends� runner-up to Windows? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com (tags: apple ubuntu desktop linux) Eclipse Challenges Visual Studio.Net In Europe, Other Regions | InformationWeek “The adoption rate of … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Adobe, Eclipse, Linux, Microsoft, Second Life, Ubuntu
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Google joins Eclipse
Ed Burnette is reporting over at ZDNet that Google has officially joined Eclipse.
links for 2006-11-08
Open Source Adobe Donates Flash to Open Source Community “Adobe will be working with the Mozilla Foundation to open source its flash player scripting engine, creating a new open standard for interactive Web applications.” (tags: adobe flash opensource) Adobe Makes … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Music, News, Open Source
Tagged Adobe, Eclipse, Microsoft, Novell, ODF
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links for 2006-10-12
Open Source Portland points desktop Linux at $10 billion market “Nearly a year in the making, the OSDL and freedesktop.org today announced general availability of Portland 1.0, the first set of common interfaces for GNOME and KDE desktops.” (tags: linux … Continue reading
links for 2006-09-12
Aperi approved at Eclipse Eclipse Foundation Approves APERI Storage Management Project “OTTAWA, CANADA – September 7, 2006 -The Eclipse Foundation, an open source community committed to the implementation of a universal development platform, today announced that it has approved the … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Education, News, Open Source
Tagged Aperi, Eclipse, Harvard, Malaysia, ODF, storage
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links for 2006-09-09 – Special Eclipse Edition
Eclipse and IBM News PRESS RELEASE: IBM Unveils New Offerings for the Open Source Community (tags: eclipse opensource ibm) IBM rolls out open source development tools – vnunet.com “The Eclipse open source IDE has been given a boost from IBM … Continue reading
links for 2006-09-08
Open Source Application Development Trends – Eclipse Popularity Rises: Heterogeneity on the Desktop is Back “The Eclipse Foundation kicks off its EclipseWorld Enterprise Developer Conference in Boston this week with some hot survey numbers” (tags: opensource eclipse) Richard Stallman on … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, Document Formats, News, Open Source
Tagged Accessibility, conference, Eclipse, Linux, Mint, ODF
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links for 2006-09-04
Eclipse Review Issue Download “The Summer 2006 issue of Eclipse Review is now available for download.” (tags: eclipse rcp opensource) Repair and Improvement TV Shows in the Yahoo! Directory (tags: home)
Mike Milinkovich on Sun, Java, and communities
See “My Prediction Still Stands.” He and others are right: one doesn’t have to look very hard to find good examples of open source communities that work well. Eclipse is one of them.
EclipseWorld 2006: September 6-8 in Cambridge, MA
Registration is now open for the EclipseWorld 2006 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 6-8.
Links for the IBM open source healthcare announcement
Here are some media links about yesterday’s healthcare and open source announcement: Healthcare, Meet Open Source “IBM said research from the Center for Information Technology Leadership claims that standardizing information exchange could yield 5 percent savings in US healthcare expenditures.” … Continue reading
Aperi in Eclipse links
As I promised in a previous post, here are some of the news links that are appearing about the Aperi project getting started in Eclipse. I’ll post more as they appear. (I don’t know about you, but “Aperi in Eclipse” … Continue reading
Aperi proposed as an Eclipse project
Last Fall we started talking about the Aperi project for open source storage management. Today it was officially announced that Aperi has been proposed as a project in Eclipse. Here is part of the press release: Aperi Storage Community to … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-24
ODF / Open Standards BetaNews | OpenDoc Gains Ground in Belgium, India “OpenDocument made additional strides in establishing itself this week, as the Belgian government certified the OASIS format as the only acceptable standard for internal documents. In addition, OpenDocument … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source
Tagged Belgium, Eclipse, India, Linux, ODF
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links for 2006-06-22
Open Source Integration Developers News: Geronimo J2EE 1.4 Quickly Enters Mainstream “Since IBM�s early adoption of Geronimo as a core component of a Websphere J2EE app server for mid-sized companies, other ISVs, partners and end users are all showing healthy … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, Document Formats, News, Open Source
Tagged conference, Eclipse, Linux, Massachusetts, Novell, ODF, WordPress
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links for 2006-06-02
ODF A view of ODF from the other side ODF advice for hardcore MS Office users. (tags: odf microsoft) 3BOpenDoc Convert documents to and from OpenDocument format (tags: odf) A mockery of international standards – At The Whiteboard – ZDNet … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source
Tagged Eclipse, Linux, ODF, Red Hat, SOA, Ubuntu, WordPress
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Another Eclipse web seminar
I added some brief comments to my original entry about the Eclipse plug-ins web seminar I attended last week. If you code and you are interested in Eclipse, it offers a good, quick introduction. You will then need to either … Continue reading
Today’s blog discovery
Just found Mike Milinkovich’s blog “Life at Eclipse” ().Check it out for an interesting view from inside one of the most important open source efforts. Mike is the executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.
“Creating Eclipse Plug-ins” web seminar
I just got email about this and decided to enroll to see what they had to say. Creating Eclipse Plug-Ins Sponsored by: The Eclipse Foundation Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 Time: 1:00 pm Eastern, 10:00 am Pacific I have no … Continue reading
links for 2006-05-09
Music: Springsteen and Dylan The Boss evokes New Orleans Concert review. Springsteen’s album “We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions” is terrific. (tags: music) Dylan Days: Music, Literature and Art in Hibbing, Minn. Big celebration this year for Bob’s 65th birthday … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Document Formats, Music, News, Open Source
Tagged Bruce Springsteen, desktop, Eclipse, Linux, ODF, Sun, Ubuntu
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AJAX and Eclipse
There’s some new news and information about Eclipse and AJAX. First, the news. eWeek is reporting that IBM has proposed the AJAX Toolkit Framework Project to Eclipse. See the article “IBM Proposes Open-Source AJAX Project to Eclipse”. Second, there are … Continue reading
InfoWorld article: Eclipse rises victorious
Nice article: “Eclipse rises victorious: Open source tools platform sheds IBM’s shadow to emerge as an independent app dev success.” David Berlind has a follow-up blog entry here.
Mr. Wiki goes to Eclipse
See the eWeek article “Father of Wiki Moves from Microsoft to Eclipse”.
IBM Rational contribution to Eclipse
Lots of news out today about a new contribution from IBM to Eclipse. From the press release: IBM today announced plans to contribute key intellectual assets to the open source community, in an effort to help companies and software practitioners … Continue reading
eWeek Eclipse article
Nice article about the growth of Eclipse and the role both users and commercial developers play: “Eclipse Grows, Thanks to Users”.
