openArchitectureWare working group at Eclipse
September 21, 2009 1 CommentOver the weekend we have finally announced openArchitectureWare's move to Eclipse at the respective websites. You will now find a landing page at openArchitectureWare.org that announces the move. The letter of intent summarizes the ideas behind the ...
Xtext goes SAP
September 11, 2009 1 CommentIn a recent cooperative project between the Nordakademie, cimt AG and itemis AG we explored the possibilities of model-driven approaches in combination with domain-specific languages in the field of enterprise software (read: SAP). A group of nine ...
Detect erroneous white spaces with Hex Fiend
September 3, 2009 2 CommentsRecently, a colleague of mine received a small patch via email to apply it with Eclipse. To our both suprise the version that worked perfectly for me lead to syntax errors in his side. The patch seemed to be ...
obj2opengl: convert obj 3D models to arrays compatible with iPhone OpenGL ES
August 27, 2009 190 CommentsWhenever you want to use 3D objects modeled with a software such as Blender, 3ds Max or Cinema 4D in your iPhone Application or any other OpenGL project, you somehow have to make the designed data accessible ...
Xtext in print
July 23, 2009 No CommentsComplementary to the extensive twitter presence, heaps of blog posts, the website relaunch as well as the successful webinar Xtext now enters print media. Today, the German iX Magazin for professional IT (issue 08/2009) publishes an article ...
Xtext: Model Prize Laureate
July 14, 2009 No CommentsWhat do a G1 Android mobile phone, a ticket for the Eclipse Summit Europe 2009, signed books about modeling as well as Xtext T-Shirts have in common? I am proud to say that itemis, the company I ...
Announcing the Xtext Webinar on Wednesday, 15th July
July 12, 2009 7 CommentsNext Wednesday, Sven and I will hold the Eclipse Webinar "Xtext: Developing Domain Specific Languages". We are going to classify Xtext compared to other concepts and frameworks and demonstrate its capabilities with a refined version of an ...
How Dropbox simplifies life
July 8, 2009 5 CommentsRecently, I had to prepare a conference talk together with a colleague while both of us were working at different locations across the country. Via chats and phone calls we elaborated the topics, shared ideas and presented ...
Xtext at DemoCamp London in June 2009
July 1, 2009 9 CommentsThis Monday the Eclipse DemoCamp took place in London at Skills Matter. You will find a comprehensive review at InfoQ by Alex Blewitt where you can read about NatTable (Dan Pollitt) and JQantLib/OSGi (Richard Gomes) as well ...
Impressions of Code Generation 2009
June 17, 2009 1 CommentOn Monday, Sven, Sebastian, Moritz, Jan and me traveled to Cambridge where the Code Generation Conference takes place each year. Arriving one day ahead we had enough time to acclimate with fish 'n chips and some ale ...
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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