Eclipse, agility, and software development in general
There I am up for a new chapter; after nearly 14 very good years doing Eclipse IDE development for Red Hat, I m taking the opportunity to try something new, and do some Eclipse IDE development for my own company, 🌘🧑💻⚗️ (EclipseDevLab) and its future customers! 🌘🧑💻⚗️ (EclipseDevLab) provides expert consulting and software development for the [ ]
It s been a while I posted something here! If I m doing it, it s for a very worthy reason: there are currently too many people who are wrong, who think that tabs are better than spaces, or that spaces are better than tabs I hope I can do something about it. Here are some recent posts [ ]
The Eclipse Foundation has recently been generous, and offered to sponsor creation of logos for Eclipse.org projects that don t already have one. When I saw Wayne s mail announcing this program, I took immediately this opportunity and asked Ian Skerett whether SWTBot could be a candidate for a logo, and it was a yes! After 2 [ ]
I ve been invited by Benjamin Cabe to be part of the Program Committee (PC) for EclipseCon France. Benjamin told me it wouldn t take too much time and I thought it would be something interesting. Benjamin was partly right (it does not take too much time, but it definitely takes some time), and I was totally [ ]
Here are some news from SWTBot, the famous SWT UI Bot API that s widely used in order to write some functional tests! A Test Recorder and Generator Together with Rastislav Wagner (who s a Red Hat colleague working on testing JBoss Tools and JBoss Developer Studio), we had the opportunity to meet in person with the [ ]
It s been awhile since I started bugging around with having Sonar at Eclipse.org. But there has been a lot of progress recently, enough progress to share them in a blog post and get you start using Sonar. So let s get started evangelizing the fight against technical debt. What s the current status for most Eclipse projects? [ ]
Hi everybody! For those who are living in French Alps, in Lyon area, or even in Geneve area, here is a reminder for an important event that takes place for the first time in Grenoble: an Eclipse Demo Camp! We ll celebrate the latest release of Eclipse: Juno. If you come at this Demo Camp, you ll [ ]
It s been a few week since EclipseCon ended. It s now time for a retrospective. First, the event was great. Although I did not have time to view that many presentations, I was able to discuss with a lot of people about a lot of topics. I learned new stuff, and shared some knowledge. I made [ ]
I don t know if you know it, but I love Jacoco. Jacoco is a very neat and easy to use coverage tool. You can easily use it with existing Java applications, it is just about giving a -javaagent to your JVM parameters. It is so easy to have coverage reports as it is to increase [ ]
That s now a few weeks since I joined the JBoss Tools and JBoss Developer Studio team and started working on build. JBoss Tools is a HUGE amount of code, with about 35 components (or modules in Maven terminology) that are aggregated in a way that can be compared to the Eclipse release train, and that [ ]