Here's the summary for a talk I gave at Portland's Linux Advanced Topics User's Group.

This talk is an introduction to Eclipse 3.2. It assumes that you know what Eclipse is and may even have installed it and cruised its menus, that you have not done anything serious with it, but that you might want to. Eclipse is both an IDE and an RCP (a starting platform for your own applications). Although I'll mention and define RCP, the talk is about using Eclipse as an IDE. I'll show how to use Eclipse to build a simple Java console application. As an IDE, it allows you to add your own plug-ins. The talk will also show how to add a simple plug-in. This talk is cribbed from various books; little if any of it is original.

Here are the notes.

AdvancedTopicsTalkPart1.doc (1.44 MB)

Here are photos from a hike that I took in the Wallawas last month with a couple of friends.

Photos from hike