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Bill Dudney
Bill Dudney is Editor-in-Chief of Eclipse Developer's Journal and serves too as JDJ's Eclipse editor. He is a Practice Leader with Virtuas Solutions and has been doing Java development since late 1996 after he downloaded his
first copy of the JDK. Prior to Virtuas, Bill worked for InLine Software on
the UML bridge that tied UML Models in Rational Rose and later XMI to
the InLine suite of tools. Prior to getting hooked on Java he built
software on NeXTStep (precursor to Apple's OSX). He has roughly 15
years of distributed software development experience starting at NASA
building software to manage the mass properties of the Space Shuttle.
You can read his blog at http://jroller.com/page/BillDudney. |
Java on Leopard - Enough
Complaining By 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 you... Nov. 1, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 9,240 Replies: 1 | Open Source Shark
Jumping? By Bill Dudney 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 stuck... May. 1, 2007 03:30 AM Reads: 6,763 Replies: 1 | Open Source Rocks! By Bill Dudney  While there I had the
great pleasure of
spending some time with
Mike Milinkovich of
Eclipse and Mike Taylor
from Instations doing a
webcast. They just
released a new product
RCP Developer and we
spent some time talking
about that and the
advantages of the RCP. Jun. 3, 2006 09:30 AM Reads: 11,809 Replies: 6 | JavaOne 2006: On the
Ground By Bill Dudney 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 going to get a
ch... May. 18, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 8,696 Replies: 3 | JavaOne 2006: NetBeans
Day Wrap-Up By Bill Dudney Tons of interesting stuff
came from 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 on
the way to being a first
class player. Yet another
reason to b... May. 16, 2006 10:45 AM Reads: 8,771 Replies: 2 | Bill Dudney's Weblog:
Oracle Buying JBoss? Who
Cares? By Bill Dudney 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.
It's not the article from
BW that was irritating at
all it was the comment by
some one claiming to be
'Siddharth Gulha... Feb. 10, 2006 10:45 PM Reads: 13,458 Replies: 3 | Bill Dudney's Blog: Open
Source Compliance
Insurance - More Evidence
of Maturing Market By Bill Dudney I'm not sure how I feel
about insurance though.
With insurance comes
lawyers and with lawyers
comes complexity. It will
be interesting to see how
many takers this type of
insurance has. Nov. 2, 2005 01:45 PM Reads: 11,364 Replies: 1 | i-Technology Viewpoint:
Is Model Driven
Architecture Coming Into
Its Own? By Bill Dudney 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? Oct. 13, 2005 10:15 AM Reads: 56,782 Replies: 1 | MyEclipse 4.0 Up On Deck:
Exclusive Interview With
Maher Masri, President,
Genuitec By Bill Dudney  The MyEclipse team has
been hard a work on
getting the next major
upgrade to their flagship
out into our hands. We
recently had a chance to
catch up with Maher Marsi
the president of Genuitec
to find our more about
this latest release. Aug. 8, 2005 03:30 AM Reads: 21,783 Replies: 3 | Why "Eclipse Developer's
Journal" and Why Now? By Bill Dudney  'The Eclipse ecosystem is
huge and growing,' writes
Eclipse Developer's
Journal editor-in-chief
Bill Dudney. 'The
ecosystem will benefit
from having an
independent magazine
devoted to the various
aspects of Eclipse and
I'm looking forward to
Eclipse Developer's
... Jul. 27, 2005 04:00 AM Reads: 20,173 Replies: 2 | Eclipse 3.1 M4 - "Cool
New Stuff," Says JDJ's
Eclipse Editor Bill
Dudney By Bill Dudney 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). 'I made the plunge
to 3.1M4,' reports JDJ's
Eclipse editor, Bill
Dudney. 'I've been using
it for about 4 weeks now
and ... Feb. 7, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 26,653 Replies: 2 | Developer Testing Is 'In' By Bill Dudney 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. Dec. 8, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 27,530 Replies: 1 | Integrating with Eclipse:
Exclusive interview with
Lee Nackman VP, Desktop
Development Tools & CTO,
Rational Software By Bill Dudney 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... Oct. 20, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 26,094 | JUnit, Assertions, and
Management By Bill Dudney When it comes to code,
Bill Dudney wonders, how
do we measure what 'good'
is? 'As a developer I
find code coverage
results to be a fantastic
tool to determine if my
developer tests are
covering all the code
under test that they
should,' he writes. 'All
too often t... Aug. 30, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 14,686 Replies: 5 | Eclipse Special: Bill
Dudney on the Web Tools
Project By Bill Dudney The Web Tools Project
(WTP) consists of two
major contributions, one
from IBM and the other
from ObjectWeb. The IBM
contribution consists of
pieces of their
development tools for
WebSphere while the
ObjectWeb contribution is
what was known as Lomboz.
In this initi... Aug. 19, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 33,739 Replies: 6 | Exclusive Q & A with Mike
Milinkovich, Executive
Director, Eclipse
Foundation By Bill Dudney 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 Eclipse
editor, Bill Dudney,
talks exclusively wi... Jul. 2, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 37,162 Replies: 3 | SYS-CON Radio interviews
the Eclipse Foundation By Bill Dudney SYS-CON Radio interviews
Mike Milinkovich,
Executive Director of the
Eclipse Foundation Jun. 30, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 23,635 | SYS-CON Radio interviews
Sun Microsystems By Bill Dudney SYS-CON Radio interviews
John Crupi, Distinguished
Engineer for Sun
Microsystems. Jun. 29, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 10,757 | SYS-CON Radio interviews
eBay By Bill Dudney SYS-CON Radio interviews
Jeff McMannis, Senior
Manager of Platform
Evangelism for eBay. Jun. 28, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 10,514 | SYS-CON Radio interviews
Exadel By Bill Dudney SYS-CON Radio interviews
Denis Ulyanov, Chief
Software Architect of
Exadel Jun. 28, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 9,894 | SYS-CON Radio interviews
Versant By Bill Dudney SYS-CON Radio interviews
Manish Chandra, Vice
President Worldwide
Marketing for Versant. Jun. 28, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 9,572 | SYS-CON Radio interviews
Fiorano By Bill Dudney SYS-CON Radio interviews
Sriram Chakravarthy,
Director of Product
Management for Fiorano Jun. 28, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 9,704 | SYS-CON Radio interviews
VERITAS Software By Bill Dudney SYS-CON Radio interviews
Tom Mulvehill, Product
Line Manager for VERITAS
Software Jun. 28, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 9,446 | Eclipse Special: Bill
Dudney Looks at New Stuff
in M9 By Bill Dudney M9 has been out now for a
couple of weeks, and wow,
has the Eclipse team made
some major progress! The
tool has lots of new
features (which we will
look at shortly) but also
has some great
performance fixes and
fleshing out of existing
features. In particular
the ... Jun. 16, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 41,086 Replies: 6 | Eclipse Special: Remote
Debugging Tomcat & JBoss
Apps with Eclipse By Bill Dudney Over the last several
weeks I've received a few
questions about remote
debugging with Eclipse. I
posted about this on my
other article back in
February but with not
enough info for others to
follow. May. 20, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 168,798 Replies: 32 | Eclipse Special: Bill
Dudney Looks at the
Change Method Signature
Refactoring By Bill Dudney This column contains an
excerpt from one of the
refactoring chapters in
my book Eclipse 3 Live.
The book will eventually
contain similar sections
for all the refactorings
available in Eclipse. May. 7, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 30,787 Replies: 1 | Eclipse Special: Bill
Dudney Looks at Eclipse
M8 Close-Up By Bill Dudney JDJ's new online Eclipse
columnist, Bill Dudney,
has been using M8 for two
weeks now and has
accumulated a lot of
notes of what he likes
and doesn't like in this
latest of the drops - the
new Eclipse M8 drop -
before we finally get to
the feature-complete
Eclipse 3.0. Apr. 22, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 45,619 Replies: 14 |
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