Frank's Eclipse and Java Blog

Thursday, June 30, 2005

I'm available

If anybody is hiring eclipse plug-in developers. I'm available... I just learned that my current contract at IBM had to be prematurely ended for budget reasons :-(
For samples of my work, see metrics and the Eclipse VTP project. Here's the blurb from my resume on what I did for the VTP project:

"Developed Eclipse plug-ins for the IBM Voice toolkit, a development toolkit for VoiceXML applications based on the Eclipse environment. Worked on editors for VoiceXML, CCXML, LXML, SRGXML and JSV (JSP for VoiceXML), both for a commercial IBM release running on RAD 6.0 as well as the open source voice toolkit (VTP). As part of this work I’ve become very experienced with the Structured Source Editor (SSE) framework in the Eclipse Webtools project, as well as some voice related technologies such as MRCP over RTSP, and JMX based administration of IBM’s WVS voice server. I am experienced with the latest eclipse 3.1 APIs since the VTP project had to be made compatible with those while both Eclipse and the Webtools project were going through their prerelease development cycles. My experience with agile processes and affinity for refactoring and adapting to change played a big role in making this successful."

Perhaps I should change careers like my wife did and join her at her massage practice. Can't off-shore those hands! She seems to be doing great and is helping a lot of people to get rid of their pains. I could use a good massage right now.....

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Million Download Challenge

I've been looking at the downloads counter on the Eclipse Downloads page for a while now, and at this rate, I'm going to go broke! (For the reason, see the challenge page) But it's for an excellent cause, so I don't mind :-) On a related note, it took me several attempts to download 3.1 for Mac OSX, did those all count? Is the counter transactional? Just wondering....

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

RC2 is smoking!

Holy smokes! I could not believe how fast RC2 starts up! Whatever you guys are doing to the platform, keep doing it :-) If you don't have RC2 yet, get it at Eclipse Downloads.