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Keynote on Apache Hadoop at EclipseCon 2011

Todd introduces the audience to the world of huge datasets, what you can do with it, profiling users and customers for example.

False assumptions learned in the last 10 years (that Hadoop has been building with this in mind)

Machines are reliable, Hadoop separates fault tolerance logic from code logic Machines deserve identities, I put [...]

Getting Eclipse Preferences Under Control in Teams at EclipseCon 2011

Michael began his talk remainding us that Eclipse configuration lies everywhere :

eclipse.ini configuration/eclipse.ini /home/.eclipse .metadata/ $project/.settings/ runtime option -vmargs …

Michael recommends the audience to try to configure as much as possible preferences on project level.

You can manage team preferences documenting them in a wiki , but it is boring for the user, [...]

Stop the Architecture Erosion of Eclipse And Open Source Projects at EclipseCon 2011

Bernhard and Frederic began their talk defining software architecture and architectural erosion, which means that your system becomes deprecated and overloaded

Then, Bernhard evoked Findbugs, saying that

back in March 2004, only 4 packages for version 0.7.2, very simple new features added for annotations for example, few months later, still looking good in May 2005, [...]