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Inside Access: Join Us at VS Live! Redmond for a Week of Deep Developer Learning
A long time ago, I stood in a packed room at VS Live! and watched developers erupt in applause after a debugging demo shaved hours off a real-world problem. That was the moment I realized this wasn’t just a conference—it was a place where developer...
2025-06-23 14:00
Hashtag Jakarta EE #286
Hashtag Jakarta EE #286 Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! As I mentioned in last week’s Hashtag Jakarta EE #285, this week the entire (or all those that were able to go) met at Esterel Resort an hour or so fro...
2025-06-22 09:59
Maintainer Month Recap: What the CRA Means for You
Maintainer Month Recap: What the CRA Means for You Last month we teamed up with GitHub to host “The Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Maintainers Really Need to Know.” The one-hour panel zeroed in on the top worries we hear from open sour...
2025-06-21 03:19
Agent mode is now generally available with MCP support
Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—and it’s now generally available in the Visual Studio June update. Agent mode turns GitHub Copilot into an autonomous pair programmer capable of handling multi-step development tas...
2025-06-17 18:24
Strengthening the Future of Open Source: Why Sponsorship Matters
Strengthening the Future of Open Source: Why Sponsorship Matters From enterprise applications to developer tools, open source software powers innovation, accelerates time-to-market, and enables collaboration across industries and geographies. At the Ec...
2025-06-17 16:25
Why You Should Submit a Talk to the Adoptium Summit 2025
Why You Should Submit a Talk to the Adoptium Summit 2025 We’re looking to hear from both project developers and contributors eager to share their journey and evolution, and from project users who can speak to how they’re applying these tools in rea...
2025-06-17 13:44
Hashtag Jakarta EE #285
Hashtag Jakarta EE #285 Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! We’re finally there! The release review for the Jakarta EE 11 Platform specification is ongoing. All the members of the Jakarta EE Specification Commi...
2025-06-15 09:59
SDV Community Days at IAV: Ready to Score Big
SDV Community Days at IAV: Ready to Score Big This year’s second SDV Community Days were held on 4-5 June at IAV’s offices in Gifhorn, Germany, providing a live stream for remote participants during the conference session. The event brought togethe...
2025-06-12 09:31
Improving ECA Renewals with Automated Notifications
Improving ECA Renewals with Automated Notifications To make it easier for our community to maintain an active contributor status, we’re introducing a new notification service for the Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA). Starting June 11, 2025, we wil...
2025-06-10 13:48
Eclipse Dataspace and ORC Working Groups to Showcase "Sovereign by Design" at Global Digital Collaboration Conference
Eclipse Dataspace and ORC Working Groups to Showcase "Sovereign by Design" at Global Digital Collaboration Conference As our digital world becomes increasingly interconnected, designing for sovereignty and trust is essential. That’s why the Eclipse D...
2025-06-10 13:18
Next edit suggestions available in Visual Studio
GitHub Copilot code completions, or gray text, are specialized in autocompleting unfinished code or providing helpful template code. In reality, coding activities are more diverse than writing new code. What if Copilot could better assist your coding n...
2025-06-09 15:00
Next edit suggestions available in Visual Studio GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot code completions, or gray text, are specialized in autocompleting unfinished code or providing helpful template code. In reality, coding activities are more diverse than writing new code. What if Copilot could better assist your coding n...
2025-06-09 15:00
Hashtag Jakarta EE #284
Hashtag Jakarta EE #284 Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am now on my way home from Tokyo and JJUG CCC 2025 Spring. You can read about that trip in my post from yesterday. Time to start celebrating! All the ...
2025-06-08 09:59
JJUG CCC 2025 Spring
JJUG CCC 2025 Spring I’m back in Tokyo again. This time for JJUG CCC 2025 Spring. This Cross Community Conference (CCC) is organised in twice a year and attracts around 1000 attendees every time. I was a speaker at the Fall edition last November, and...
2025-06-07 11:00
How to filter C++ Build Insights by project
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 comes with quality-of-life improvements to its C++ Build Insights integration that will make it easier for you to navigate large multi-project traces and handle long file names for your build inputs and artifacts. What ...
2025-06-05 15:37
From Uganda to the World: Christopher Lumu’s Open Source Journey
From Uganda to the World: Christopher Lumu’s Open Source Journey Open source is often described as a global movement, but for developers like Christopher Lumu, it’s also deeply personal. Born and raised in Uganda and trained in Computer Science, Ch...
2025-06-05 08:53
ORC Monthly: Deliverables Plan in Motion, New Task Force Forming and CRA Maintainers Recap
ORC Monthly: Deliverables Plan in Motion, New Task Force Forming and CRA Maintainers Recap We’re pleased to share that we’ve moved from planning to execution. The Cyber Resilience SIG’s deliverables plan has been expanded with clear, actionable ...
2025-06-04 19:37
ORC Monthly: Deliverables Plan in Motion, New Task Force Forming and, CRA Maintainers Recap
ORC Monthly: Deliverables Plan in Motion, New Task Force Forming and, CRA Maintainers Recap We’re pleased to share that we’ve moved from planning to execution. The Cyber Resilience SIG’s deliverables plan has been expanded with clear, actionable...
2025-06-04 19:37