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Making a UX splash for Mars
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been putting the finishing touches on our LaunchBar contribution to Eclipse. It started out of work we did for BlackBerry Momentics. Our goal was to simplify Eclipse as...
View ArticleEclipseCon 2015, the Ship Tacks
I’ve been to all 12 EclipseCon North Americas. I especially love coming to this year’s venue, the Burlingame Hyatt, because it hosted the second one in 2005 which has been one of my favourites. It was...
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My Journey to Mars, Eclipse Mars
Wow, Eclipse Mars is almost finished and it’s been very busy for me and those I’ve been working with. We have a lot of exciting new features coming and I can’t wait to get them into the community’s...
View ArticleWhat’s next?
The Eclipse Mars release marked a special moment for myself and our team at QNX and BlackBerry. It’s the culmination a few things we’ve really wanted to get done for our Momentics users and share with...
View ArticleEclipse, the IDE for IoT
One of my hobbies recently has been playing with my Arduino Uno. I just love how accessible microcontrollers have become along with all the little sensors and LEDs and other hardware components. It’s...
View ArticleDesign like you won’t be there tomorrow
For Eclipse Neon, we’re releasing CDT 9.0. Yes, it’s a major release, the first one in a long time. It’s our chance to clean up a few things that may or may not affect APIs but gives us that option. I...
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Launch Bar 2.0 for Neon
I’ve been working on the Launch Bar for it seems like forever. But it’s still only used by a few people in the Eclipse world and I haven’t really made a push to get others to adopt it. I don’t think...
View ArticleRespect, it’s all we all ask for
Am I an asshole? Yeah, sometimes. I have strong opinions and I have a habit of saying the wrong thing and getting people mad at me. But it’s usually in cases where I see people treated unfairly and I...
View ArticleIntroducing the Arduino C++ IDE for Eclipse
I’ve been working on this for over a year now and I finally have it in shape for people to try out. It’s the Arduino C++ IDE for Eclipse! Why did I build it? Well really it’s because I bought myself an...
View ArticleWhat a great first week for the Arduino C++ IDE
As I mentioned in the introductory note, I’ve been working on the Arduino C++ IDE for Eclipse for over a year. It started out as a very simple CDT extension to deal with the Arduino toolchain and SDK....
View ArticleAPI Changes for LaunchBar for Neon
The LaunchBar project that a number of us are working on is in a weird home at Eclipse for the moment, i.e. as a component of the CDT project. That makes it hard to reach everyone who’s extending it...
View ArticleHappy New Year! Looking forward to 2016
It’s New Years Eve, a great time to reflect on the year that was 2015. I’ve been full steam ahead on a number of projects both with Eclipse and with my real job at QNX and quite often both. I’ve been...
View ArticleEclipse CDT Launching and Toolchains
I’m working on adding debugging for CDT’s upgraded Qt projects support. Looking at the legacy CDT launch delegates, I’m having a hard time figuring out how to reuse the parts that I need. I’m not sure...
View ArticleFilling up the Dance Card – EclipseCon 2016 Reston VA
I can tell EclipseCon is getting close by the level of my panic. Five weeks to go. And it’s getting pretty tight. I have a whole bunch of things I want to demo and hopefully get the community excited...
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LaunchBar and User Experience
In an effort to make the LaunchBar more “Eclipse standard”, I am trying to make the icons for the build, launch, and stop buttons 24 pixels square. They were 32, which I do admit made the entire tool...
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Eclipse Andmore needs love too
I posted a tweet the other day after seeing yet another election for a new committer to the Eclipse Platform UI project. They are doing a great job down there and they rightly took the tweet as a...
View ArticleBlogging QNX
I’ve been working on the Eclipse CDT project for a really long time now. It started in 2001 when I fell into an opportunity to pursue my dream to work on a C/C++ IDE and, in particular, coming from the...
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Now Available: The Eclipse C++ IDE for Arduino
Back in October, I released the preview edition of the Arduino C++ IDE and the response has been fantastic. I had something like 50 bug reports and lots of questions on every forum imaginable. That...
View ArticleSee you in Ludwigsburg at EclipseCon Europe!
It’s been many years since I’ve been to EclipseCon Europe. It hasn’t been from a lack of desire. There’s just been a few personal and business reasons that made it difficult. But this year, the road is...
View ArticlePushing the Eclipse IDE Forward
It’s been a crazy week if you follow the ide-dev mailing list at Eclipse. We’ve had many posts over the years discussing our competitive relationship with IntelliJ and the depression that sets in when...
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