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EclipseCon Fever

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:44:06 +0000

It’s that time of the year again. Although it will be my fifth EclipseCon, it’s still as exciting as the first one, getting there, meet the community, discover and listen to the new stuff.

Can’t wait to see you there! Oh and I’ll fly FRA-YYC-SFO this time because it will be SFO-YYZ-FRA on my way back with an overnight stay in downtown Toronto (Friday, March 26th). I’m really looking forward to meet old friends there.

Ed is everywhere – even at ESE

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:09:30 +0000

There is only one guy in the universe that – despite traveling a lot recently – can deliver two tutorials on the same day at the same time.

I’m wondering now if modeling solved the problem of cloning. Anyway, I just registered today to be there and watch that happening.

EclipseCon Countdown

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:08:44 +0000

I’m in Frankfurt already. My plane will leave tomorrow at 10am Frankfurt time. Thus, I should be in the Hyatt in the afternoon.

Update, March 21, 5:30pm local time … I’m there.

Ed, you are too serious!

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:44:18 +0000

Well, that’s what one could say if you look at my Wordle.

A few Ctrl+R unveiled some interesting facts.

Runtime Symposium

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:34:30 +0000

I’m sitting in the RT symposium and it’s a nice group. It’s not too crowded. Unfortunately, there weren’t many position papers. I think that’s a bad. Putting together a position paper is not too much work. Everybody attending a symposium should do so.

Anyway, the agenda that Jeff, Martin and Heiko came up with is great. Based on some questions they asked before the symposium they defined topics and also attached time slots to it. At the end, there will be a fishbowl. I don’t know what that is but Jeff’s description sounded interesting.

The crowd is mixed. There are people from many different countries and companies and I heard one guy saying Microsoft. It’s also great to see a lot new faces which actually means that the topic is really attracting new people.

Eclipse Forum Europe 08

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:36:49 +0000

I’ll catch a train to Wiesbaden soon. Unfortunately, I can’t stay for the whole conferences but just tomorrow for our Server-Side Eclipse talks. If you weren’t able to join them at EclipseCon now is your chance agan.

Anyway, I wonder if there is a general place for Eclipse people (committers, contributors, fans) to meet? Something like the EclipseCon table topic but not just at lunch?

Tutorials delivered

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:42:51 +0000

So we are done delivering our Server-Side Eclipse tutorial. It went pretty well. We got a few questions so guys were at least listening.

I’m now sitting in one about secure OSGi applications. There will be exercises at the end so it sounds like a lot of fun.

Update: If you are looking for the code and slides of the Server-Side Eclipse tutorial they are all in the CVS of the SSE-Examples project on SourceForge.net. For your convenience here are some direct links.

Long trip and renovated rooms

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:18:27 +0000

So I arrived at the Hyatt in Santa Clara after an eleven hours something flight from Frankfurt. The weather is good, a bit cloudy but much better than what we had in Germany.

It looks like the Hyatt also got a refreshment. I got a renovated room. Seems that flat screen is now becoming standard. So I’m kinda outdated at home now.

#2, #3

Somthing to read

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:36:22 +0000

It’s that time of the year. I’ll leave my two girls tomorrow evening and travel to Frankfurt to catch an early plane on Saturday morning. BTW, it’s unbelievable how fast they grow up, she is already getting her first teeth.

Anyway, right in time I got a copy of a brand new book that I want to read. It’s perfect timing since we are planning to build a new distributed reporting platform designed on Server-Side Eclipse and a few other cool technologies. Did I mention that I’m delivering a two-part tutorial about developing Server-Side Eclipse based web applications together with Jochen? Well, now I did!

EclipseCon 2008 Submissions

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:37:05 +0000

So EclipseCon 2008 has a new submission system. I just have one question. Why?

Obviously it looks better and the usability seems better. I really appreciate that. But it lacks some really important features available in the old system. So while Bjorn asks about our opinions on more transparency in the speaker communication the new submission system is in my opinion a step back in transparency.

Just some question to underline my view:

How can I watch individual submissions?
Where is the CC field?
Where will the program committee votes be visible?
Where can the community vote?
What is behind those cryptic mailing list names?
Where is the change history for a submission?
What’s the secret about the EclipseCon Wiki that several requested access to?
Why does the EclipseCon Wiki block community access?
Where can I download the source code for the new submission system? What about bug tracking and development planning?
Why is it hosted outside the Eclipse.org infrastructure?

There seem to be really good reasons for the new system. It probably has been developed by an external consultancy. However, do all these reasons really satisfy a development approach which looks closed source like to me?

I’m a bit disappointed now. This is something I didn’t expect. Maybe I’m just too curious and a lot of these items are already on an to-do list. But again, where is this to-do list?

Eclipstation – The Truth

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:46:02 +0000

Do you really want to know what happens if you run Eclipse on a PlayStation? See yourself here.

Provisioning Symposium

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:53:16 +0000

I’m blogging live from the Provisioning Symposium. It’s a nice group and we are already having a great discussion. Jeff started with a presentation and a demo about p2. I really like the symposium format.

Eclipse Summit Europe 2007

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:02:25 +0000

Eclipse Summit Europe 2007 – I’ll be there. Will you be?

ESE is quite a young conference. It’s the second one and I went to the first one last year. It’s also much smaller then EclipseCon but that isn’t a bad thing. When walking through the hall it’s much easier to get into discussion with people. Networking really works there and it’s fantastic to hear what others are doing with Eclipse.

Tuesday is Symposia day. For me again, the major topic is Server Side Eclipse. I just submitted my paper.

Eclipse RCP Tips and Tricks

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:38:11 +0000

For those you who couldn’t attend Kai’s session at EclipseCon here is the link to the slides including the speaker’s voice hosted at Parleys. It’s ~45 minutes but you get a lot great stuff for your time.

Server Side Eclipse

Gunnar Wagenknecht — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:08:15 +0000

Ok, our two sessions (75 minutes each) are over. We discussed the basics in part one and user interfaces in part two. They were very well attended and we got very positive feedback. Thanks!

There was one question that I promised to answer after the session. We had a little confusion about the legacy Equinox HttpService and the Jetty based HttpService. A question came up why Eclipse ships both in the SDK if we recommend the Jetty service for Server Side Eclipse.

I responded that the SDK doesn’t ship the legacy Equinox HttpService but then Jochen showed a screenshot where we saw it. Uuups. Well, now after the session, the answer turns out to be simple, we both were right.

The Eclipse SDK does not ship with the legacy Equinox HttpService but the Equinox SDK does. Both are complete different downloads. The reason for shipping both HttpService implementations with the Equinox SDK is simply support for mobile/embedded devices. The legacy HttpService runs on those devices whereas the Jetty based HttpService does not.