Richt Text Editor for Eclipse/SWT

I have been looking around, but a feasible Rich Text Editor for SWT seems to be hard to find. I finally came accross the FCKEditor integration from the JFire/Nightlabs guys. They do not promote it, but it works fine for me. I had to grab some dependencies from different repos at nightlabs and make some hacks to make it play nice with the Rest of my app, but it looks stable and works on all platforms (some other editor needs a xulrunner, thats still messy on 64bit platforms) as it uses the Browser widget to render FCKEditor.

Customized FCKEditor in an eclipse e4 RCP app.

Cloudbees - jenkins build

Over the christmas holidays I moved my build from a dedicated server over to the Cloudbees DEV@cloud service. They offer quite an amount of free build minutes to open source projects. They even installed the non-standard buckminster plugin for me on my free account and helped me out with every little problem I had even over the holidays. So now my buckminster build is running @cloud https://tkratz.ci.cloudbees.com/. Thanks for the great support to everyone@cloudbees.

Eiswind Open Source Book Publishing Software

The english translation of my Open Source Book Publishing Software project is mostly complete now.
It's a perfect alternative for small book publishers, who don't need the big solutions and/or can't afford something like acumen or klopotek. It's written in Java and Groovy, based on Eclipse 4.1, Hibernate, Spring, Lucene and Jackrabbit. If I can find someone who is interested in participating in this project I'm always happy, so don't hesitate to contact me. I made a small demo video showing the core functionalities as of today. Remember this is work in progress. But things like Onix-Messages, Project Workflows, Royalty calculations, Basic CRM are already in production.
You can find more information on http://www.book-publishing-software.com

EclipseCon 2011 slides are online

My this years EclipseCon Eurpope slides are on slideshare now. Hope that FOSSLLC will upload the recording soon.

http://www.slideshare.net/ThomasKratz/an-eclipse-client-server-architecture-with-asynchronous-messaging

The truth about motivation

If anyone asks me again, why I'm doing Eiswind Software, I'll send him this video.