Looking into the Eclipse

Digging into the Eclipse Marketplace

Eclipse is an integrated development environment that can be extended with plug-ins. Thanks to Eclipse’s success, a diverse community has been established with members coming from industry, opensource projects, and others, and a marketplace with more than 1.700 different plug-ins developed. Hence, the question arises how this marketplace is composed: Who contributes plug-ins? Which plug-ins are...

Looking into the future

Eye tracking experiments show that neurons respond rapidly to eye movements, allowing our view of the world to remain stable.

Looking into the Future

No matter what business you’re in, you’re also in the software business. But where are we heading? This 50th installment of Software Technology tries to look into the future. To mitigate bias, I spoke with many software business leaders around the world. They pointed to ve success factors that will advance the software business. They left unaddressed whether software will evolve humankind to Hu...

Looking into the crystal ball

Looking into the neonatal isolette.