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February 2005 Archives

EclipseCon - Tutorials Online

There's no substitute for attending a tutorial in person, but with over 20 to choose from at EclipseCon 2005, it's inevitable that you'll miss something good.

The PDFs of the tutorials and sessions are made available under the EPL v1.0.

Therefore you are free to use them for your own learning or incorporate them into training for your organization, subject to that license.

To best decipher the tutorials, check the prerequisites (PDF) first and then download the specific PDF.

Some of the tutorials require sample code available from a URL in the prerequisites or the PDF. There may be a few cases where the sample code was distributed at the session and can be requested from the author.

Blogging EclipseCon 2005

A couple years back, I looked at Eclipse as a Java IDE, and decided that it was not yet full-featured enough to be our main development environment. The Eclipse Project has made an incredible amount of progress in just two years.

Recently, Malcolm Davis spent a day with me demonstrating the current IDE. I showed it to some members of my team, and it was in widespread use in about a week. Some of us are using 3.0.1, and some are using 3.1M5a, and both seem to be quite stable.

I'm interested in using the IDE, adding plug-ins as well as Rich Client Platform development. In order to learn as much as I can quickly, I'm heading to EclipseCON 2005 in San Francisco, and will be blogging from there.

Check out the sessions. Several speakers have already posted PDFs of their presentations.

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