Category Archives: Eclipse
e4 – Dependency Injection Tooling
In bug 302824 we started discussing how to make the use of DI easier and beside e.g. providing Helper-Classes the ideal thing would be to provide good tooling. Think about how hard OSGi-Development would be without PDE and I think … Continue reading
e4 – Extending an existing Product
After some months of not having contributed substential stuff to e4 and in anticipation of the EclipseCon tutorial “e4 – Anatomy of an e4-Application”. I worked yesterday on some demo stuff which we’ll probably use show the audience: The new … Continue reading
e4 – why you don’t need e5
This was orginally a reply on Elias post on e5: On “should take risks”: We agreed that e4 would be compatible with 3.x. Is not 100% correct: We agreed on the fact that e4 will provide a compat layer so … Continue reading
Looking back and into the future – First conclusions
I admit I’ve been depressed a bit after having looked back to year 2009 because making the summary showed that I failed in most of my Eclipse “Jobs”. Until then I’ve had a lot of fun working on OpenSource projects … Continue reading
e4@JUGS
Yesterday I presented e4 to members of the JavaUserGroup Schweiz. There’ve been 80+ people (I was told that this was the highest number of participants ever taken part in Special Interest Group talk). I’d like to thank Edwin Steiner from … Continue reading
Looking back and into the future – Part I
Part I – The Validation I thought today that I’ll look back on my work in Eclipse space and the final summary is double-edged. There are some things I think I made a good job in the Eclipse Ecosystem, some … Continue reading
e4 presentation in Zurich on Jan 14th 2010
The JavaUserGroup Switzerland invited me a month ago to give at talk on e4. We’ve now fixed the date and place for the presentation: Location: Technopark Zurich, Room Fortran Date: Jan 14th, 2010 – 17:00 – 18:15h: Talk incl. Q/A … Continue reading
e4 – some random thoughts (2nd iteration)
At the Vienna DemoCamp it once more became apparent how important e4 is going to be to not loose the whole “Eclipse RCP” market segement. I already blogged some time ago about the problems I have to justify spending workhours … Continue reading
Hamburg DemoCamp without me
As nice as it is to live in the center of the alps as bad it can be. We’ve been waiting for snow now for more than 1 month and guess what happened this night? It started snowing and so … Continue reading
Vienna DemoCamp
Amazing. Yes it was really amazing to see how much Eclipse-RCP is used in Austria. I got in touch with many people and talked with them about e4 and the vision behind it. Many of them said that the flexible … Continue reading
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