Category Archives: eclipse

Eclipse: Empowering the Universal Platform Technical Briefing

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Lawrence Mandel

IBM has put together a technical briefing entitled Eclipse: Empowering the Universal Platform that provides an introduction to Eclipse – the platform, the foundation, and the ecosystem. This is a nice introduction if you’re starting out with Eclipse or want … Continue reading →

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Eclipse RT Day Toronto

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Lawrence Mandel

Yesterday was Eclipse RT Day Toronto at the IBM Toronto Lab. For those who missed it, there is quite a lot going on the runtime space. (A number of the presentation slides are available on the Eclipse RT Day page.) … Continue reading →

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Watch Mike Milinkovich debate the merits of the EPL

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Lawrence Mandel

The Free and Open Source Learning Centre recently ran a debate about which open source license is best: BSD, EPL, or GPL. I think Mike does a great job of summarizing the merits of the EPL. Check out the video … Continue reading →

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More WTP Books on the Way

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Lawrence Mandel

My publisher just informed me that stock of Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java Web Applications is getting dangerously low. (OK, so I added in the dangerously part.) This is great news as it means the book is a hit … Continue reading →

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Register for EclipseCon 2008, Get a Free Eclipse WTP Book

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Lawrence Mandel

EclipseCon 2008, the Eclipse Foundation’s annual conference, is being held March 17-20, in Santa Clara, CA. Register early and as a bonus the first 100 people to register will receive a free copy of my book Eclipse Web Tools Platform.

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Another Error Message for the Hall of Fame

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Lawrence Mandel

I was trying to create a DVD with InterVideo WinDVD Creator V2 (which came bundled with my ThinkPad) this weekend when I was presented with an error dialog. This immediately seemed to me like a candidate for the error message … Continue reading →

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Eclipse and Apache Team Up for OSSummit Asia Conference

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Lawrence Mandel

Following on previous goodwill built between the Eclipse and Apache communities the two Open Source foundations have decided to partner for the first time on the OSSummit Asia 2007 conference. As announced to Apache committers via the committers mailing list: … Continue reading →

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Digg Eclipse Articles

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Lawrence Mandel

Links to Digg, Slashdot and Del.icio.us help in the promotion articles and other Web content. Traditional news sites like The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star (local references) now provide links to these sites from their articles. So where … Continue reading →

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Eclipse WTP Book Released!

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Lawrence Mandel

I’m very pleased to announce that the first WTP book in the Eclipse Series has been released. Eclipse Web Tools Platform: Developing Java Web Applications by Naci Dai, Lawrence Mandel and Arthur Ryman is nowavailable from retailers such as Amazon, … Continue reading →

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What’s Baking at the Eclipse Series? The New WTP Book of Course.

Posted on May 17, 2007 by Lawrence Mandel

Can you smell the new Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) book coming out of the oven? I can. After almost two years of writing, editing, reviewing, writing, editing, reviewing, … the books are due at the publisher by the end … Continue reading →

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