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Alex Blewitt: Top Ambassador Nominee

At 1:26 PM on Feb 7, 2007, Daniel Spiewak Javalobby Junkies wrote:

Alex Blewitt ( EclipseZone , Milton Keynes, UK) has been nominated for the Eclipse Top Ambassador Award . EclipseZone asked him a little about himself:

How did you first get involved with Eclipse, and how long ago?

I first got involved with Eclipse via WebSphere Studio 3.0, which was based on Eclipse 1.0 around early 2002. Prior to that, I'd been using Visual Age for Java, though to be honest it took a few iterations to work out some kinks back then :-) I'm not really involved with any Eclipse projects. I've thrown a couple of things together recently for JDT/UI, but I don't often get time to put code where my mouth is ...

What Eclipse-related projects are you working on and what are you doing?

I'm not really involved with any Eclipse projects. I've thrown a couple of things together recently for JDT/UI, but I don't often get time to put code where my mouth is ...

What's your favourite Eclipse feature that you've added?

Probably the ability to open a project's manifest by right-clicking on the project. Very useful from the Java Browsing perspective (which is a vastly underused perspective, IMHO).

What's your favourite feature/plugin (commercial or open source)?

I think that Omondo's EclipseUML is pretty good for generating UML diagrams, and there's a free non-commercial version (as long as you don't use version control).

What OSes do you do development on?

Predominantly Mac OS X for Eclipse-related stuff, though I use WinXP at work.

Are you attending EclipseCon or giving a talk this year?

Yes, with my wacky ties and a short talk on pack200 .

What Eclipse-related bookmarks/feeds (other than EclipseZone, of course) do you frequently use?

What do you get up to in life when you're not thinking about or working with Eclipse?

There's life outside Eclipse? Well, when I'm not working at my day job or editing EclipseZone, I try to spend as much time as possible with my wife, two dogs and son. I'm also a pilot in what little spare time I have, so take to the air occasionally.

Lastly, how do you see yourself in the Eclipse community, and why should people vote for you?

It's an honour just to be nominated. I try and do what I can to help people on the newsgroups and Ask EZ forums, as well as blogging about the day-to-day news that I find. I did put together some example code to show how to build RCP applications and automated builds (which became a tutorial presentation for EclipseCon 2006), as well as the occasional article . Oh, and I think I have the best ties in the Eclipse community ...

EclipseZone would like to thank those that took part, and please remember to vote for the individual awards prior to the closing date of February 16th 2007.

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1. At 1:50 PM on Feb 7, 2007, Alex Blewitt DeveloperZone Top 100 wrote:

Re: Alex Blewitt: Top Ambassador Nominee

I wonder if this picture is a better one and should have been used instead ;-)
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