Bill Dudney

So while reviewing the release notes for Java on Leopard I noticed a couple of interesting bits. First they included junit 4.1 and maven 2.0.6 in the mix, which is great (except that maven 2.06 had some serious bugs with transitive dependencies). mvn is now on your path so you do... (more)

Bill Dudney's Blog In my role @ sys-con.com I got to do some very cool stuff. At JavaOne i many times was able to interview smart folks etc. Anyway one of the folks I talked with was Nigel Cheshire of Enerjy. They make cool tools to help you and your team build higher quality sof... (more)

Bill Dudney's Blog I read a pointer to this on /. the other day and mentally filed it to go back and see what the fuss was all about. I finally had time tonight. Bottom line, Mr. Gould does not get it. Clearly the IBM press release is about making it so Lotus Notes folks are not ... (more)

Open Source Rocks! So right after JavaOne I had to go to DC to do a sales call (ok stuff) and right after that I went to New York (cool stuff). It was my first time to do the tourist thing in NYC. It was really fun my super Mom came out to watch our kids so Sarah and I could go a... (more)

JavaOne 2006 - On the Ground I'm in SF on the ground heading out to NetBeans day. I'll post my general impressions once there. I also have some stuff to do with the JCP. Should be interesting. I was just reviewing the session and there is as usual way too much to see but I'm goi... (more)

NetBeans Day Wrap-Up A lot of interesting stuff was presented at today's NetBeans shindig. I am impressed with the progress they have made in just a year. The tool set is a lot better and seems to be making significant progress in becoming a first class player - yet another reaso... (more)

Oracle Buying JBoss? Who Cares? Ok, I've been following the hype and speculation about Oracle buying JBoss but the latest bit that I read on Business Week really got my dander up. Its not the article from BW that was irritating at all it was the comment by some one claiming to be... (more)

Bill Dudney's Blog: Open Source Compliance Insurance - More Evidence of Maturing Market I found this very interesting indeed. Basically the insurance company will underwrite you and cover various types of 'direct loss' if/when you pass their compliance audit. From the article; ... (more)

JDJ's Bill Dudney (pictured) writes: With the popularity of Object Relational Mapping tools like Hibernate and Cayenne, developers are more often than other giving control of some of their code to models. Will this help raise MDA into the mainstream? Will MDA take its hoped-for p... (more)

JDJ: Describe the focus of the Enerjy CQ2 product and the target user base. Enerjy Team: In the past we have focused on developers and built tools to support them. What we have found is that while these tools are helpful to developers that understand the importance of upfront quali... (more)

Eclipse Developer's Journal: What is MyEclipse and what's unique about the Enterprise Workbench? Maher Masri: The goal of MyEclipse is to provide a comprehensive, practical, low-cost and fully integrated enterprise development tool suite that anyone can afford to use around the g... (more)

When I was first asked to take on the role of Editor in Chief for Eclipse Developer's Journal (EDJ) I naturally asked myself this same question. Why do we need a journal dedicated to Eclipse right now? I believe there are two main answers: 1. the community is large and growing, a... (more)

The power of an idea whose time has come – cool video with a talking head and lots of idea type stuff, flying around in space, through developer stuff etc. John Gage – talking community and meeting everyone, you’ve got to meet people, Microsoft is at J1 this yea... (more)

The Eclipse team is well on the way to the 3.1 release. The current release is M4 with M5 to follow in less than two weeks (M5 is due Feb 18th). Given all the cool stuff that is planned for the 3.1 release I've been itching to make the move, but alas my day job was getting in the... (more)

A few weeks ago Agitar Software announced that Kent Beck had joined their team. I sat down and talked with Alberto Savoia, CTO, and Kent Beck, Agitar Fellow, to find out what prompted the move and what Agitar is up to that is so exciting. JDJ: Kent and Alberto, why each other? ... (more)

In July IBM announced that the Rational tool set would be fully integrated within the Eclipse tool set and would provide an integrated set of tools to support the full life cycle of software development. Recently I was able to interview Lee Nackman, the CTO of the Rational divisi... (more)

I've recently been having a discussion about the quality of JUnit tests and how manager types might be able to judge the quality of the tests. In my mind this is not so easy to resolve. I know managers (especially on very big projects) need a way to judge the quality of what is bei... (more)

Related Link: JDJ Exclusive Q & A with Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation The Web Tools Project (WTP) went live late last month and I finally had some time to play around with it. I'll summarize what is there in this article and then write up some of the det... (more)

To view our full selection of recent Eclipse stories click here On June 1, 2004, the Eclipse Board of Directors named Mike Milinkovich the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. The hunt had been on since Eclipse became an independent entity earlier this year. Here JDJ's Ecl... (more)

SYS-CON Radio interviews Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director Eclipse Software Listen to the interview... ... (more)