Author Archives: John Arthorne

Orion 3.0 M2 – New and Noteworthy

Posted on May 31, 2013 by John Arthorne

It has been a busy milestone for the Orion project. The user interface had another major overhaul, and there were several tooling enhancements such as editor auto save and a new search page. There are also clear signs in this … Continue reading →

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Orion 3.0 M1 – New and Noteworthy

Posted on April 16, 2013 by John Arthorne

This week the Orion project released its latest milestone, 3.0 M1. Check it out now on OrionHub, or download your own server. Find out below what the Orion development team has been up to. EclipseCon experience The Orion team had … Continue reading →

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Orion 2.0 M2 – New and Noteworthy

Posted on January 29, 2013 by John Arthorne

This Orion milestone saw some major structural changes under the covers of Orion. The Orion browser client had a major refactoring to make it easier to consume Orion components, and the new server based on Node.js made great progress. Some … Continue reading →

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Orion 2.0 M1 – New and Noteworthy

Posted on December 11, 2012 by John Arthorne

Two major themes of the Orion 2.0 release are improved import/deployment and node.js support. These are large scale efforts and their benefits will mostly come in future builds. In the meantime, here are some goodies in the 2.0 M1 milestone … Continue reading →

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Editing eclipse.org Web Sites with OrionHub

Posted on November 23, 2012 by John Arthorne

This post is for fellow Eclipse committers who have recently migrated their Eclipse project web sites to Git. With your web site stored in Git, you can now use Orion to maintain your web site directly from your browser without … Continue reading →

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Orion 1.0 RC2 – New and Noteworthy

Posted on October 16, 2012 by John Arthorne

While the main focus during our release candidate period is bug fixing and documentation, a few new features snuck in over the last two weeks that are worth mentioning. These updates are already available on OrionHub, or for download. Persona … Continue reading →

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Orion 1.0 M2 – New and Noteworthy

Posted on September 25, 2012 by John Arthorne

New features are still arriving at a rapid clip as we approach our 1.0 release, scheduled for late October 2012. This milestone has new goodies in JavaScript tools, global search, Git integration, editor functionality, and much more. Check out the … Continue reading →

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Orion 1.0 M1 – New and Noteworthy

Posted on August 14, 2012 by John Arthorne

The first milestone towards the big Orion 1.0 release is now available. The main focus of this release cycle is on cleaning up and polishing the work of the previous incubating releases, and much of this effort is in behind … Continue reading →

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Orion is not a Java IDE

Posted on July 26, 2012 by John Arthorne

A passing reference in a recent Wired article called Orion a tool for “those using the Java programming language.” Just to clear up any confusion, that statement is completely wrong. Orion is a tool for client-side web developers. In particular, … Continue reading →

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Examples of Embedding The Orion Editor

Posted on June 11, 2012 by John Arthorne

Several people have recently asked for help or examples on how to embed the Orion editor. Part of the confusion stems from old sample code and blog posts floating around that are based on older versions of Orion. Rather than … Continue reading →

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