Git is the world’s most used version control system. It provides a lot of great features, but one thing it doesn’t do well is show you a nice diff between your changes and master in real time. Sure, Git can show you a list of changed files in the status…

Just in time for KubeCon 2017 and CloudNativeCon 2017, Benjamin Cabe, a member of the Eclipse Foundation and an avid IoT maker has published a very interesting blog post on how to develop IoT in a cloud-native way. In his hands-on post he shows an end-to-end IoT solution for power…

This is an exciting time in the web IDE market. Selfishly because Eclipse Che continues to grow in its community and enterprise adoption, but more broadly because everyone (even the most “traditional” organizations) are seeing the value of moving their development toolchains off localhost and into the cloud (both SaaS…

In May, Codenvy was acquired by Red Hat and Codenvy’s proprietary code is being donated to the upstream Eclipse Che project. In the meantime, however, we continue to see growth in the usage of codenvy.io’s hosted Che workspaces and want to keep our SaaS fresh for developers. So we’ve just updated codenvy.io to use Eclipse Che 5.18 which includes some great improvements: .Net 2.0: New stack, sample app and language server.

The team at EclipseSource is back with another instalment in their blog series about extending Che. This time they’re adding a custom editor to support EMF modeling in Ecore. In this post they discuss the pros/cons of the three main ways to add your own editor to Che: Extend the…

[This post is updated with the latest on running Eclipse Che on the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Platform.] Today you can run the open source Eclipse Che project (licensed under the enterprise-friendly Eclipse Foundation EPL 2.0 license) on any Kubernetes distribution, including Red Hat OpenShift. For those looking to try…

A monthly recap of the developer articles I found most interesting. I’m trying a slightly different formula this month by organizing the articles under headings to try and give folks who have specific interests a quicker way to find the links they want. …

A monthly recap of the news I found most interesting in cloud development. The Difference Between SOA and Microservices Isn’t Size Stephen O’Grady Stephen does a nice job explaining why the success of microservices over SOA is more about how easily they can be adopted by developers and how little lock-in they demand. Predictions for the Direction of Serverless Platforms Gareth Rushgrove Some thoughts on…

The team at EclipseSource is back with Part 6 of their blog series about extending Che with a custom assembly. In this post the team tackles creating a custom editor for the Ecore files that make up an EMF model. They’ll do this by creating a custom plugin with two…