Blogs
Doug on the Eclipse CDT
I used to believe that this whole patent system was just a cold war. Everyone was patenting everything they thought of, mainly in case they got sued for infringement on something else, in order to counter sue. Then they'd go meet in a bar somewhere, have a few pints and work things out.Well, unlike the real cold war, where everyone got smart and realized there would be no winner and just gave up, (and, yeah, there was much more to it than that, but humor me :). The software industry seems to be about...
Planet Eclipse
OpenNTF: Nice End User Tool Snippets from Detlev Poettgen
Detlev Poettgen and Onur Guengoeren have released a nice end user tool on OpenNTF under the Apache license - called Snippets. Lotus Notes users can drag and drop snippets of texts and attachments from a sidebar panel into Notes documents. Users can define these snippets themselves or they can use shared snippets. The application has been implemented via an Eclipse plugin that can be installed via drag and drop and a Notes database which needs to be installed manually....
