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It Pays to Do Community ...

I am incredibly honored to be the recipient of the INETA Community Champion Award – the annual recognition for those who contribute notably to the Microsoft...

0 replies - 1100 views - 05/20/13 by Samidip Basu in Articles

Eclipse at GitHub

Almost all Eclipse Git repositories are mirrored at GitHub. The mirrors were initially set up two years ago by the nice folks at GitHub with relatively...

0 replies - 4146 views - 04/05/13 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

The Great Git Experiment

While many projects have claimed success with Git, a great many projects and developers continue to struggle with its adoption. In the fall of 2012, several...

1 replies - 9771 views - 04/01/13 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Eclipse User Stories

I love hearing what people are doing with Eclipse.  It really is amazing the great software people have built on top of Eclipse.  This is why...

0 replies - 3484 views - 03/08/13 by Ian Skerrett in Articles

Accepting Committers with Code

Most of the open source projects that I’m familiar with don’t tend to take significant contributions unless they come with development resources....

0 replies - 2118 views - 02/19/13 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Eclipse Spell Checker

One of the nice things of modern IDE’s are: they offer many extras for free. Many times it is related to programming and coding. But I love as well the...

0 replies - 1507 views - 02/06/13 by Erich Styger in Articles

Weekly Poll: Spring Modules

For this week's poll, we wondered which modules were the most useful in the Spring framework. I've compiled a list of 28 Spring modules, and, this time, all...

2 replies - 8694 views - 02/01/13 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Weekly Poll: Preferred Professional Contact Method

After reading Jurgen Appelo's reflections on not answering the phone, we began to wonder what method DZone's audience prefers to be contacted through, when it...

0 replies - 4854 views - 01/25/13 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Connected to the Community

 My previous entry spoke of an open source project’s responsibility to keep their community informed. In that entry, I focused on a big part of a...

0 replies - 1647 views - 12/27/12 by Wayne Beaton in Articles

Weekly Poll: Open Source in 2012

As we head toward the end of the year, we began wondering what the most significant achievements and trends in the tech industry have been during 2012. The...

0 replies - 5576 views - 12/21/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Wireframe Sketcher: A Must Have For UI Developers

If you're developing user interfaces for any application, you'll want to use a prototyping tool at some stage to get your ideas and workflows across to a wider...

0 replies - 8635 views - 12/11/12 by James Sugrue in Articles

We Need a Programmer for President

Tomorrow is the general election day in the USA.  If you've seen any of the debates or the rhetoric leading up to this year's election you've...

1 replies - 31966 views - 11/05/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Ode to Eclipse Bug 8009

Some people reading this post will already know about the bug of which I speak. For those of you who are unaware, I give you Eclipse bug 8009. This is the...

0 replies - 2333 views - 10/30/12 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Articles

Weekly Poll: Windows 8... When?

Today's Windows 8 release got us wondering, "When did we actually start using Windows 7?" I, personally, got my Windows 7 key pre-release from being a member...

12 replies - 9540 views - 10/25/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

Giving up on Eclipse Juno

In my last blog I posted about my Eclipse 4.2 Juno setup; as much as a reference for me in case I needed to do a reinstall as anything else. What I didn’t...

6 replies - 6860 views - 10/15/12 by Dan Haywood in Articles