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David Williams: Top Comitter Nominee

At 6:56 PM on Feb 13, 2007, Alex Blewitt wrote:

David Williams ( IBM ) has been nominated for the Eclipse Top Commiter Award . EclipseZone asked him a little about himself:

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

I was a consumer of Eclipse since the first release. After a few years of that, we started the WTP project, which is when I became a committer.

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

The Web Tools Platform ( WTP ). I am the Web Standard Tools ( WST ) project lead. My history of coding/committing has primarily been on the editing components (XML, JSP). I'm also a committer on the Orbit project, which isn't too flashy, but has some interesting bundle work.

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

Well, I'd have to say the XML Source Editor, but the JSP source editor is a close second.

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

Well, I'm partial to IBM's Rational Application Developer , partially since they are WTP's largest adopter, but also because they pull together a lot of important tools. I also like the smaller, more independent tools, such as Remote Systems Explorer , and ShellEd . Not to mention the inspiration I get from sleak and core.runtime tools.

What OSes do you do development on?

Windows and Linux.

Are you attending EclipseCon or giving a talk this year?

Yes, and yes. ( Java Web Application Development with Eclipse WTP ).

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

Actually, the most used are a number of bugzilla queries and some mailing lists. I'm old-fashioned and still enjoy the newsgroups more than blogs and feeds.

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

Hmm, play guitar, baby sit, read sci fi, and ... read about programming styles, design patterns. Does that count?

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

I try to be generally helpful in giving practical advice about "the Eclipse Way". I helped coordinate the Callisto release and found it very rewarding and educational to work with so many different projects and teams -- and must have done a fair job, since they gave me a cake afterwards! I have a sincere desire to see everyone who contributes or adopts Eclipse to be successful, and hence enjoy mentoring/coaching everyone from fellow programmers to fellow project leads.

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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