This year, I had the chance to attend EclipseCon once again. Like each time, it was a great moment for many reasons.1- Contents I presented two talks this year, so I haven't be able to attend many sessions. But, in the EMF community we are fortunate to have great speakers. Attending sessions of Ed Merks or Eike Stepper still is a great time!Ed presented the result of its work on the EMF performances. This session was composed of 3 parts:Some tips on the way to work on software performances.An important reminder of the fact of trusting nothing and nobody (what a party guy Ed!).And finally a presentation of the methodology and the work done for improving EMF performances.Even if it's part of the software development’s foundations, it's always a good to remember the importance of taking care of software performance. The only problem of this session was the lack of time, 70 slides in 35 minutes remains a big challenge hard to meet!Eike presented a very complete tutorial for deve...

What? Now that I’m done with my talks and finally can overdrink Eclipsecon is over? Well that’s sad, but on the bright side I think that this final day was one of the best ones. As a hudge Beatles fan, I had to finish this set of posts with a Beatles song. I chose the very last song they composed, “The end”  on the Abbey Road album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a_8F6gflxQ I think it sums up the Eclipsecon & OpenSource spirit : “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make”. Take care of your community & users, and they will take care of you. Morning Keynotes Right before the keynote, we watched a diaporama of all picture taken by the staff, with a music that will be stuck in my head for decades: “This code is your code, this code is my code…”.  Jim Laskey showed us Nashorn, a Javascript engine for the JVM. Jim is also in charge of dynalink, a project which purpose is to help several laguages commun...

Hi guys! Again, an exciting day at Boston! Morning keynotes Zack Holman from github made us laugh hard, a really great speaker. “You don’t have to be clever to succeed, I mean this is America!”, and once we acknowlegded that any developer was an horrible programmer, we saw how open source offered the opportunity to get feedback from pros and improve ourselves. Exploiting our hobbits and interests to provide a real-life service accessible to end-users is one of the awesome possibilities of Open Source. He also stressed out how project leaders should welcome oustide contributions and bring help to contributors, not only because this may be their first pull request and that can be scarry, but also because that makes your OSS alive. Zack insisted on the fact that writing doc allows you to invite people to participate without having to teach them ; ”Documentation means less work for you”: that’s exactly the Intent mantra :) The main point was to remember...

Hi guys, as always after only 1 day I cannot get the time to write about everything I’ve seen today, let me try to sum it up…. Morning Keynotes Stephen O’Grady and Jeffrey Hammond gave us their insights on the shape of things to come in the software world, in which considering that Software business is only about selling softwares becomes a hudge mistake: without free softwares like linux, php or mysql, the market would not have evolved and no business would be possible. The idea is to make money with software rather than from software, like Google, which built itself from free softwares. In that context, the developers are the new kingmakers, at they are the ones that pick the technology software will be based on. Jeffrey pointed out that now that innovation in softwares costs less, the market is opened for new ideas (remember that facebook was born from a student project). Open source, agile behaviors, quick feedback collection, evolving infrastructure and quality...

Wow the least we can say is that we had quite a night here at Boston :) After the tutorials, I had the pleasure to meet known and unknown faces, and some Mylyn Intent enthiusasts which is always a pleasure for me :) The eclipse community awards were especially great, thanks to Marcel Bunch’s game: make a developer freud game where each team was supposed to guess what were the most popular method calls for a given class! Fun, challenging, and a good opportunity to show the power of Code Recommenders (if anyone had doubt abouth that). Definitively the funiest ceremony I ever saw at eclipsecon! Icing on the cake, Obeo Designer, the software I’m working on back in Nantes, won the Eclipse best modeling product award. I think it’s deserved, and you will too after having attended to the Eclipse Sirius talk tomorrow (Sirius is one of the ObeoDesigner components). Chris Aniszczyk won the  Lifetime Contributor Award, well deserved as he mentored more than 25 eclipse project...