Jens Eckels
Jens Eckels writes regularly on the technology industry, and is currently employed by Genuitec, LLC; creators of the MyEclipse Enterprise workbench.
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AJAX :: Open Source
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Articles by Jens Eckels
September 18, 2007
If most of us were to be asked who godfathered the printing press, the majority of responses would cite Johannes Gutenberg, a German goldsmith in the 1400‘s, for his work in bringing the Bible to the masses. Very few would eloquate that a Chinese man named Bi Sheng invented one of the most influenti...
August 02, 2007
Licensing. What you don't know CAN hurt you.
Open source licenses come in all shapes and flavors, none of which are inherently evil or devious. Rightfully so, the licensing varieties are selected by the creators/owners of software code, and reflect their own desires for the projects that are bei...
March 28, 2007
In 1972, a small Texas commuter airline was formed with a simple premise: get people where they want to go fast, cheap and fun. What began as a simple, but disruptive idea is today a household name in the United States: Southwest Airlines.
Southwest is recognized consistently by Fortune 500 magaz...
January 31, 2007
Genuitec today announced the availability of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 5.5. Based on a new Fusion™ technology platform, this first milestone release introduces significant developer enhancements for the MyEclipse IDE known as the Enterprise Workbench™ and debuts a new suite of SNAPs (Simple Non...
November 20, 2006
On November 7th, various cities around the globe (including my hometown of Dallas, hosted by MyEclipse) threw birthday parties for the Eclipse platform, which celebrated the 5th anniversary since the code was made available by IBM.
On holidays, it tends to be tradition to do a little self examini...
October 13, 2006
Did Michaelangelo use a 30-pound sledgehammer to chisel details of David's physique? Naturally, the answer is: “of course not!” Rather, this great artisan individually selected each tool appropriate for his project status, leaving the rest of the tools untouched in the bin for later use.
Analogo...
September 27, 2006
Google Trends is an interesting beast. While they caveat that the stats put forth are not 100% accurate, this valuable tool does give us some insight into web search behaviors over time.
Recently, in an attempt to find where MyEclipse stands in the virtual realm against some competitors, I saw a ...
August 08, 2006
Genuitec, LLC, the leading provider of the popular MyEclipse IDE and a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation, today announced the immediate availability of MyEclipse 5.0 Enterprise Workbench, a major product release with a number of innovative new features. These new capabilities further MyEclip...
July 31, 2006
After several years of highly-critical rhetoric surrounding core concepts and calls for participation, Microsoft is finally cozying up to the open source fire. The unspoken motive behind the about-face? Money, of course. As more and more enterprises are realizing, open source can open up other much ...
July 11, 2006
The second milestone release (M2) of MyEclipse 5.0 is now available for immediate installation through the "Development Releases" section of the downloads area of the MyEclipse website. Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX support is available. Please review New and Noteworthy, installation instructions and ...
June 30, 2006
It's time to take a long, hard, realistic look at Eclipse. As alternative IDEs grows in popularity and function, it's relevant to explore the effects of this environment on the Eclipse ecosystem, and how best to face the challenges posed by Sun/NetBeans and others.
Ok - so Eclipse doesn't have th...
May 25, 2006
Both environments have quality uses, and obviously, the price is right for each (free!). However, once you get into the plugin market, an intruging wrinkle in this debate is MyEclipse. This Eclipse-based product has been revolutionary in many ways, including bringing the first AJAX support tools int...