Author Archives: Ken Walker

Article on Orion and BeagleBone Black development

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Ken Walker

There’s a great article by Benjamin Cabé over at Element14 about utilizing Orion to do development on a BeagleBone Black leveraging Node.js, MQTT and all sorts of other Internet of Things technology. Eclipse Orion, Arduino and BeagleBone Black – Prototyping … Continue reading →

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Ken’s Top 5 JavaScript Sessions at EclipseCon 2014

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Ken Walker

If you’re interested in JavaScript and/or Node.js development this years EclipseCon North America has some great sessions in store for you! It starts off with a Tutorial Monday with the Orion team titled END TO END WEBAPP DEVELOPMENT WITH ORION. … Continue reading →

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Orion 4.0 Released

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Ken Walker

Another 4 month push and Orion R4.0 is available for Download, for use at OrionHub or if you’re running Node.js you can npm install orion and then npm start orion (There’s a video of installing the Node.js version of Orion … Continue reading →

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Midterm GSoC update on the Orion Git Blame feature

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Ken Walker

Again this year the Orion Project is benefiting from the Google Summer of Code program. We put up several suggestions on the Eclipse Foundation GSoC 2013 Ideas page, as did other Eclipse projects. As a potential student working on open … Continue reading →

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Orion and Google App Engine Push-to-Deploy

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Ken Walker

After reading an article by Brad Abrams on Cloud based deployment leveraging Git push and Google App Engine I thought I’d outline how Orion can be leveraged in the same way. Brad suggests starting with a Google Cloud Platform Guestbook … Continue reading →

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Orion at EclipseCon Boston 2013

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Ken Walker

The EclipseCon Conference in Boston is shaping up to be a great one overall and really interesting for those using or looking to use Orion. There’s a tutorial, hackathon, many information sessions and a BOF Wednesday night. 14 opportunities to … Continue reading →

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Orion 2.0 Release

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Ken Walker

The team is happy to announce our 2.0 Release of Orion, 4 months after coming out of incubation at Eclipse. There’s been several posts along the way about what we’ve been working on but a few highlights include removing library … Continue reading →

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4,400 New accounts on OrionHub since 1.0 release

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Ken Walker

On October 29th I posted at PlanetOrion our 1.0 announce and this was automatically tweeted by our @orionhub account. The reception and spread of the news was great in my opinion and thanks to those for retweeting, writing articles or … Continue reading →

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Orion 1.0 Release

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Ken Walker

The Orion team is proud to announce our 1.0 Release! Since the original contribution in early 2011 Orion has seen continual improvement in the platform, functionality and User Experience. What has Orion set out to accomplish in our 1.0 release? … Continue reading →

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EclipseCon Europe 2012 Talks on Orion

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Ken Walker

EclipseCon Europe 2012 aligns nicely with the state of Orion as we have just declared our 1.0RC3 release which is the candidate build for our final 1.0. The platform is in a shape on which to start building the next … Continue reading →

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