Eclipse DemoCamp: Portland

On Monday we had the first Portland Eclipse DemoCamp. We need to ensure it is not the last as I feel it was a great success and well worth the effort to attend and present.

The format was simple: people signed up on the wiki to attend and if interested signed up to present a demo. We had about 30 people show up to watch and present 8 demos. There was a great taco bar to fuel up so the brain was ready to digest the demos.

For whatever reason my VPN refused to work so I had to revamp my demo to be hosted entirely on my laptop. Thankfully Chris G swapped demo spots with me so I had some time to set up for the demo. So I apologize for the sketchy notes / missed demos as I was fairly focused on prepping instead of listening to the demos that came before mine :-)

Chris Goldthorpe, IBM, presented first on whats is new in Eclipse user assistance.

Scott lewis, BEA, presented the ECF shared editor. Appears to be a cool prototype and the ECF guys are working on more sophisticated locking, synchronization and transaction support for Ganymede.

Chris Elford - Intel - demo the state of the TPTP profiler. We saw the threading mode and execution statistics. The TPTP project is requesting user experience reports to get kudos as well as input on where changes are required. Dive in and give your feedback.

Phil Quitsland - Instantiations WindowTester - recorder and test code generator. Apparantly you can try it out for free.

Emerson Murphy-Hill - PhD candidate - Portland State University. Cool (wacky..his word :-) ) take on improving the Eclipse refactoring tools. Circular menu with gestures for refactoring: direction indicative of refactoring - up is pull up, down is push down. Refactoring cues view to remove the menu/wizard interaction for refactoring. Contact Emerson to try it out and make his adviser happy.

I presented on Jazz, with a focus on the process component of which I am a team member.
Don't run screaming from the room with the mention of process or governance with respect to software development. The Jazz Platform is process-neutral. Jazz itself has no built in process enforcing what is done for any particular occasion. One of the mandates of our team is to allow Jazz users to explore, define and adapt their process for use for their team and project. This is what I demonstrated with some simple examples.

Overall an excellent use of a Monday evening!

EclipseCon 2008 program

After many emails, phone calls and meetings the EclipseCon 2008 program committee has set the program for the conference.

The Committer and Contributor category has as great line up with 3 tutorials, 4 long talks and 5 short talks: check it out.

As well, we are planning to get a Hackfest together for committers.

I turned down my own short talk but I really only submitted it to start discussion on the idea. I still plan to organize a "running" BOF to get out for some exercise and have some great conversations with other EclipseCon attendees. Similar to JAX jogging.

Start reading and planning so you can attend EclipseCon.

Race Archive

A collection of all my race related links and reports.
Good to read when I need some inspiration to get out the door :-)

Race tag for this blog: here

2007 Races

• February 24th: Hagg Lake 50km
• April 7th: Vernonia Half Marathon: Report
• April 29th: Eugene Marathon: Report
• June 17 : Tigard Balloon Festival 5km: Report
• June 23-24th: Pacing Ronda at WS100: Report
• July 28th: Pacific Crest Trail 50km: Report
  
• August 18th: Where's Waldo 100km: Report
  
• September 8th: McKenzie River 50km: Report
  
• September 15-16th: Pacing Stacey at AC100: Report
  
• November 4th: Autumn Leaves 50km: Report

2008 Races

• February 3th: Zena Road Run 5 km (6:14 pace) : Report
  
• February 23th: Hagg Lake 25 km (9:39 pace) : Report
• March 8th: Champoeg 10 km (6:23 pace) : Report
• April 21th: Boston Marathon (8:48 pace) : Report
• June 20,21 : Pacing Ronda at BigHorn 100 Miler : Report
• July 4th: Foot Traffic Flat Half (6:33 pace) : Report
• July 26th: PCT 50 miler (11:40 pace) : Report
• Aug 22, 23rd: Hood To Coast Relay : Report
• Sept 6th: McKenzie River 50km (8:50 pace) : Report
• September 19th: IBM 5km (6:12 pace) : Report
• Oct 5th: Portland Marathon 5 miler (6:25 pace) : Report
• Oct 19th: Run Like Hell 5km (6:44 pace) : Report
• Nov 7th: Richard's Run For Life 5km (5:59 pace) : Report
• Nov 27th: Give n' Gobble 5km (6:08 pace) : Report
• Dec 7th: California International Marathon (7:24 pace) : Report

This page was inspired from Scott Dunlap's.

Let It Snow

For the last couple of days we have been getting a light dusting of snow here in Portland, Oregon.
My son Cole has been very excited about the possibility of school cancellations...he will just have to keep hoping :-)

We were lucky enough to get out for a nice 2 hour run in the falling snow (no accumulation) this morning as a prelude to "watching" the Western States 100 lottery hosted at Dave and Lynn's. Unfortunately no one from the lottery party was lucky enough to get their name drawn this year (there was only a 16% chance). 23 people from Oregon did get in so we have lots of people to cheer for.
A number of the people from the party are resetting their sights on the Big Horn 100.
I am still strictly a "spectator" with no plans to run a 100 miler next season. I am still pondering what I will race in 2008...we shall have to see.

After the party, Trisha, the kids and I hit the Hot Pot City restaurant to meet up with Jared and Michelle for lunch. Nice price for all you can eat, good food and a fun different atmosphere. The kids loved having to mix up and cook their own food in the hot pot right at the table. Recommend it!