Code Generation 2011 – Don’t miss out!
Code Generation 2011 is just around the corner and if you haven't booked yet, you should hurry up - a few places are still available!
Quite a number of my colleagues at itemis have been busy preparing for this conference in the past few weeks. Besides working hard to hit the Eclipse Release Train milestone for Indigo on June 22nd, the Xtext team brushed up their hands-on sessions "Xtext Take I: Creating Code Generators with Xtend2" and "Xtext Take II: Crafting Domain Specific Languages with Xtext and Xbase". If you've been using Xtext, you're well aware of the power you have at your disposal with this tool. Xbase and Xtend2, however, take this experience to a whole new level. So make sure to mark your calendar for these two sessions!
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Save a Tree, Put EclipseCon 2011 in Your Pocket
After the huge success of the mobile apps for Eclipse Summit Europe, we decided to provide mobile apps for EclipseCon 2011, too. So instead of using a printed copy of the conference program, you can browse the schedule on your smart phone - wherever you are! Read more
Eclipse DemoCamp Hamburg November 2010
Last Friday was a happy day for Java developers in Hamburg: not only did Apple and Oracle announce their plan to continue development of Java on the Mac OSX platform, but we also had the pleasure to host this fall's instance of Eclipse DemoCamp Hamburg in a bookstore!
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[Updated] Use your iPhone, Android, or BlackBerry to build Your Eclipse Summit Europe 2010
As I'm writing this, Eclipse Summit Europe 2010 is merely hours away and everyone is getting excited to get there and meet Eclipse family.
I think the program committee have done a great job at putting together an exciting conference program with lots of technical sessions, interactive tutorials and inspiring keynotes.
As a special treat for smart phone users, we're offering a conference schedule app for iPhone, Android and all other smart phones that come with a browser. Read more
Don’t attend the Eclipse DemoCamp in Hamburg this Friday…
... if you're not interested in meeting local (and non-local) Eclipse enthusiasts and committers, learning something about Eclipse, Git, SWT, Qt, e4 and the iPhone, watching some nice Pixar short films in a cosy cinema, and frosty beverages.
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iPhones on Mars
EclipseCon 2010 is over and as always has been a great chance to meet up with fellow committers and users of the software we build. Xtext has received a tremendous amount of attention: not only did we deliver several talks and tutorials on Xtext, but also did Xtext get mentioned in a number of talks we were not involved in. Xtext even received the Eclipse Community Award in the category "Most Innovative New Feature of Eclipse Project".
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Eclipse DemoCamp Hamburg 11/2009
The Eclipse DemoCamp in Hamburg was a huge success - more than 110 people signed up and most of them actually showed up at the event:
The program was packed with interesting talks and we were lucky to be able to present some very well known speakers:
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Xtext @ Google
Last week I had the chance to speak at the EclipseDay at the GooglePlex in Mountain View, CA, an event organized by the Eclipse Foundation and hosted by Google's Open Source Programs Office. Google is a truly amazing company and the GooglePlex is a very exciting place to be at. As I was one day early and needed a creative place to put finishing touches on my slides, I took the chance to visit Robert Konigsberg who was kind enough to host me for that day. The organizers put together a great agenda with lots of interesting talks. Looking at the agenda, you will see that there actually are three major topics, Eclipse in the Enterprise, Modeling and Runtime: The talks
- Eclipse in the Enterprise: Lessons from Google
- Distributed OSGi
- Deploying Successful Enterprise Tools
- Build and Provision
all dealt with how Eclipse can be used in the Enterprise or which challenges you will face if you start using Eclipse in large-scale scenarios.
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Eclipse Modeling Day in North America
We (i.e. the Eclipse Foundation, itemis and Cloudsmith) are looking into arranging one more Eclipse Modeling Day in North America this fall and would like to gather feedback from folks interested in attending. Please use this poll to help us tailor a location and program to suit your particular interests:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dF ZQcGh3RDhrUUdyNTAtMXlVU2pKQ1E6MA..
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Xtext does London
Marking the end of this years series of DemoCamps, Neil Bartlett and SkillsMatter are organizing the final DemoCamp in London on Monday 29th, 2009. Yes, that's next monday!
Neil was kind enough to invite someone from the "modeling/oAW folk", so Heiko Behrens will be giving an Xtext demo.
If you haven't had the chance to attend Code Generation 2009 or if you're curious what all this DSL talk is all about, I urge you to sign up for the DemoCamp now - it is free of charge.
I was fortunate enough to hear Heiko speak at the DemoCamp in Hamburg. Not only is Heiko a very good speaker (with a very convincing, deep voice), but also did he manage to come up with some very good examples of what a DSL is and why you should consider using them in your projects.
By the way, if you want to play around with Xtext before the DemoCamp, you can get a fresh copy from our download site at http://xtext.itemis.com.
