Breaking New Ground
August 17, 2011 13 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 ...
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" ...
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 29 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 ...
Your List of Wishes for the EclipseCon (iPhone|Android|.*?) App
November 26, 2010 5 CommentsThree weeks ago, the mobile conference app we built at itemis mobile helped many attendees to keep track of their personal schedule at Eclipse Summit Europe 2010. With three different versions we not only addressed the Android and iPhone ...
Let’s get naked
April 9, 2010 4 CommentsToday is CSS Naked Day 2010, hopefully many websites will participate and deactivate their styling as I did with this blog. The idea behind CSSND is to promote web standards and proper, semantic markup. [caption id="attachment_1012" align="aligncenter" width="400" ...
The iPhone at EclipseCon 2010
March 31, 2010 2 CommentsThe EclipseCon 2010 was a huge success not only for our flagship project Xtext. As mentioned by Sven and Jan before, we gratefully received the Eclipse Community Award and enthusiastically delivered more than 6 talks around model-driven software ...
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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