archive for 2008/10


Service Discovery and Remote Services with the Eclipse Communication Framework

Jan S. Rellermeyer, Markus Kuppe, Scott Lewis The Eclipse Communication Framework has released its version 2.0 with Eclipse Ganymede. Two of the new and noteworthy features that ECF is bringing to the mainstream Eclipse developer are service discovery and distributed OSGi services. In this talk, we will introduce the various tools and concepts that ECF [...]

relearning 10 fingers

I’m currently working from Versant’s US office for one month. To save some time I brought a notebook over from Germany. Apparently a Dell notebook isn’t up to my typing, because the return key popped off and now the keyboard needs replacement. Unfortunately Dell _international_ support isn’t able to replace German keyboards (to be fair [...]