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EclipseCon 2011 blog posts : talks I attended

From the 21st to the 24th of March, 2011, I was a lucky attendee of EclipseCon 2011.

Lucky because it was my first time at EclipseCon, my first major conference in North America (it was located in Santa Clara, in the Californian Silicon Valley) and also because my employer, Compuware, agreed to let me go [...]

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, [...]