Merks' Meanderings

The opinions expressed here are my own, not someone else's. If they seem rational, that's purely coincidental and you are likely reading far too much between the lines.

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Out With the Old, In With the New

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After a whirl wind week of upheaval, I've arrived in geek heaven. I blogged about the OMG Eclipse Symposium, but I didn't have time...

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Eclipse OMG Symposium

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The symposium started with an introduction by Kenn Hussey who talked about the nature of open specifications, open source, and how the two r...

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Monday, June 23, 2008

So Long and Thanks for All the Open Source

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After almost sixteen years at IBM I've made the most difficult decision since leaving Vancouver to work for IBM in Toronto: I've res...

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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Was Gany Good to You?

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I'd like to think I was good for Gany but definitely Gany was very good to me! The recent SD Times 100 article recognizing the best a...

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Rules: Making, Breaking, and Following Them

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Does it ever strike you that it seems like Eclipse simply has too many rules? Recall the dialog between the Emperor of Vienna and Mozart w...

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Friday, June 13, 2008

The End is Nigh!

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Did you ever feel like you could almost hear the clock ticking? Although you know the end is nigh, time just seems to slow right down, unle...

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

How Confident Are You?

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Many of us have an obsession in life that drives us with a passion. For me that passion is modeling. For Ruby, that passion is keeping the...

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Ed Merks: I lead the top-level Eclipse Modeling Project as well as the Eclipse Modeling Framework subproject. I hold a Ph.D. in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University. I have my own small company, macromodeling.

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