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Written by Greg Hester
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009 18:28 |
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 What is Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation?
Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services.
The Eclipse Project was originally created by IBM in November 2001 and supported by a consortium of software vendors. The Eclipse Foundation was created in January 2004 as an independent not-for-profit corporation to act as the steward of the Eclipse community. The independent not-for-profit corporation was created to allow a vendor neutral and open, transparent community to be established around Eclipse. Today, the Eclipse community consists of individuals and organizations from a cross section of the software industry.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 January 2009 19:14 |
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Eclipse Hawaii User's Group 12/16/08 |
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Written by Greg Hester
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Thursday, 25 December 2008 21:32 |
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This month, the Eclipse Hawaii User's Group was held over lunch and at the Dept. of Justice on Beretania St. in Honolulu, HI on 12/16/08. This was an awesome meeting with IBM providing sandwiches and Pacific Hi-Tech providing a presenter, Greg Hester. 
We had over 20 persons in attendance and Greg brought along two of his sons to talk about technology in Hawaii. Josiah Hester, Freshman at Clemson University in South Carolina, described how Eclipse is used by students at Clemson on Java, C++ and PHP projects. Nathan Hester, 11 years old, showed off his Lego NXT robot. Everyone got a chance to play with the robot and to see how its is programmed. 
Greg Hester, CEO of Pacific Hi-Tech, then gave a presentation on Eclipse and how it can be used to build web applications. Greg showed some Eclipse basics such as perspectives, editors, the debugger and scrapbooks to name a few. Greg also demonstrated and extended a web application as part of the presentation. To find out more about more about the Eclipse Hawaii User's Group, visit their site at http://eclipsehawaii.org. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 08 April 2009 23:04 |
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Joomla! A Great Content Mgmt Tool |
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Written by Greg Hester
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Sunday, 19 October 2008 03:23 |
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Joomla! is an incredible content management tool. You can create articles using a WYSIWYG online editor. Those articles can be categorized and tagged. A menuing system is provided along with user maintenance and access control. Joomla! also allows the implementor to pick from several styles or create their own. From an Administration point of view, a very clear and consise web based administration tool is provided which is easy to use. As you might have guessed, this site itself is running on Joomla! Give it a try, I think you'll find yourself very productive. |
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Written by Greg Hester
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 22:57 |
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Is Hawaii only about tourism? Not so! Greg Hester, CEO of Pacific Hi-Tech, and Steve Sakata of IBM had the opportunity to appear on the Mike Buck radio show at KHVH 830 AM on Dec 4th, 2008. Mike talked to Greg & Steve about technology in Hawaii and how the presence of companies like Pacific Hi-Tech is decreasing the "Brain Drain" on Hawaii. Greg & Steve also pointed out that there is a growing tech community in Hawaii with several user's groups to support the community. 
Here are just a few user's groups you might want to be a part of: Eclipse Hawaii User's Group provides a place for Eclipse enthusiasts to share, learn and contribute to the Eclipse community. Eclipse is an IDE developed by IBM and donated to the Open Source Community. You can build Java, PHP, Ruby and much more with Eclipse. Manoa Geeks is a regular gathering of people working or interested in Web 2.0, online entrepreneurship and start ups, programming and development, and science and technology. TechHui is Hawaii's online Tech Community. TechHui provides an online venue for meeting other Techies. You can also share events, join or form a group around a topic, or post articles about technology. Bytemarks Cafe is a weekly radio show on KIPO - 89.3 FM that showcases technology projects and attempts to build a broader awareness of technology in Hawaii. Bytemarks aims to encourage a dialog and interaction, both online and in real space. Please visit the links above, show up at a meeting and get involved! |
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Last Updated on Friday, 26 December 2008 18:31 |
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Have you seen Project Zero? |
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Written by Greg Hester
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Sunday, 19 October 2008 02:58 |
Project Zero is a new technology incubator centered around agile development and the next generation of dynamic Web applications. “Project Zero introduces a simple environment for creating, assembling and running applications based on popular Web technologies. This environment includes a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP with application programming interfaces optimized for producing REST-style services, integration mash-ups and rich Web interfaces.” Project Zero includes both a development and runtime environment for building web applications and services. The interface seems intuitive and powerful. This is an IBM created open source project which ramps up to the IBM products called sMash and silverstone. Project Zero also includes plug-ins for Eclipse! |
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Last Updated on Monday, 20 October 2008 22:11 |
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Software development is made easy with Eclipse! Eclipse is a multipurpose software development tool originally created by IBM and then donated to the open source. If you're in Hawaii, check out the Eclipse Hawaii User's Group!
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