Eclipse Night London

Join your fellow Eclipse enthusiasts at the first (annual?) Eclipse Night London! During the evening, we will have a handful of seasoned speakers talking about exciting evolutions in Eclipse, including a talk by Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse foundation. We will have a networking break in the middle of the evening, as well as food and beverage for those attending.

There is a £10 cover charge for this event, please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eclipse-night-london-tickets-18130707434

Program:

18.00 - Socializing

18.30 - Welcome

18:40 - Debrief - the Open Source Maritime Analysis Application, Ian Mayo, Deep Blue C

An overview of Debrief - the Open Source application used by the UK Royal Navy for the past 20 years, with an Eclipse RCP interface for the past 10.

19:00 - Data Analysis and Visualization using Eclipse RCP (and some JavaFX!), Matthew Gerring, Diamond Light Source

How Eclipse is being used at the Diamond Light Source Synchrotron - the UK's biggest experiment - to perform analysis and visualisation on huge amounts of data.

19.20 - Welcome from Genuitec, Emanuel Darlea

19.30 - Networking break

20.10 - Keynote, Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse Foundation

The Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation will give us some insights into technology trends and how Eclipse will play a part in these.

20.30 - How to Write Bad Plugins, Alex Blewitt, Credit Suisse

Have you ever felt Eclipse is running too fast and needs to be slowed down a little? Worry that the user interface is too uncluttered? A big fan of the beachball? In this tongue-in-cheek talk, Alex will show how to write plug-ins that do all this and more to enable a worse user experience in your favourite IDE.

20.50 - Closing & Quiz, Tracy Miranda, Kichwa Coders

21.00 - Pub

Eclipse Night London has been generously supported by Genuitec, Eclipse Foundation and Kichwa Coders.