Breaking New Ground
August 17, 2011 12 CommentsAfter nearly three years with itemis I decided to found my own startup and to create a product in the mobile area. I like to think back of the awesome time with the Xtext team and later ...
New Website: Xtext 2.0 Indigo, CSS3 + HTML5
July 13, 2011 4 CommentsThere's been a major redesign of the Xtext website. Not only, it leverages the modern Eclipse Indigo look in different variations. Similar to Xtext itself, it comes with some cool new features whereas others had been polished ...
Publications in current issues of PAGE magazine and mobile business
April 29, 2011 1 CommentThe German print magazines PAGE 5.11 and mobile business 03.11 both share some of my ideas about mobile development in general, web vs. native, and how designers and developers can work hand in hand to produce a ...
Nudity on the Web
April 8, 2011 No CommentsToday, I am switching off the styling of my blog to celebrate the Naked CSS Day 2011. Similar to last year, I am participating in this annual event to promote web standards and proper, semantic markup. [caption id="attachment_1651" align="aligncenter" ...
Live Recording: Cross-Platform Mobile Development for iPhone, Android & Co. at MobileTech Conference
March 26, 2011 1 CommentNext week, the German MobileTech Conference 2011 (Spring Edition) will take place in Munich and features three fully-packed days of sessions and workshops around mobile development and marketing. Being still in California, I won't speak this year ...
Retrospection: Cross-Platform Mobile Development at EclipseCon
March 24, 2011 8 CommentsYesterday, Peter and I talked about "Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Eclipse" at EclipseCon in Santa Clara. After some conceptual slides telling about the difficulties one face when targeting different platforms (in our case iPhone, Android, Windows Phone ...
“What is EclipseCon?”
March 18, 2011 2 CommentsIn a few hours from now, I will be on my flight towards this year's EclipseCon in Santa Clara. Similar to my blitz talk last year, I am going to talk about mobile development based on domain-specific ...
Google Android Emulator Skins for Nexus S and Nexus One
March 15, 2011 17 CommentsWhen I was producing the screencast for Peter's blog post about the EclipseCon App, I had a hard time to bring the Android App in shape. As any Android developer will know Google's Android Emulator comes with ...
Repair Broken RSS/ATOM with The Feed Sanitizer
March 7, 2011 No CommentsWeb feeds are a standardized yet widely underestimated way to attach software systems to content providers. You can both bind a news portal of any publisher to you very own piece of software or aggregate and filter ...
Ge.tt – The Superior Online File Sharing Alternative to Our Departed Drop.io
February 27, 2011 No CommentsWhen Drop.io had been purchased (read: shut down) by Facebook last October a great way of sharing files disappeared without any equally simple alternative. Times have changed and free services such as Crate, Senduit, DropSend, or Box.net ...
Heiko Behrens
is a programmer, author, and public speaker with more than a decade of commercial software development, technical writing, and on-stage presentation experience. As an active committer at Eclipse and as an involved participant in numerous other open source projects, he has in-depth experience in a broad range of technologies. His startup BeamApp, still in stealth mode, is focussed on mobile application development, both native cross-platform and web-based.
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