Let’s get naked
April 9, 2010 No 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 ...
Recent updates of the Xtext website
January 7, 2010 2 CommentsIn conjunction with the Eclipse M4 release of Xtext its website has been updated, too. We wanted the new features to reflect how lively the Xtext project is by just looking at the website. At the same ...
Retrospection of the iPhone Developer Conference 2009
December 7, 2009 No CommentsThe German iPhone Developer Conference in Cologne (01-02 December) was an exciting event that started with a very informative keynote by Maximilian Reiß who elaborated the tide of iPhone events of the last years. From there, nearly ...
EWiTa 2009 in retrospect
October 24, 2009 No CommentsYesterday's first Elmshorner Wirtschaftsinformatiktag at the Nordakademie was a worthwhile event. As expected, the lineup arranged by Hinrich Schröder and Frank Zimmermann motivated controversial discussions. Hartmut Herde asked critical questions about MDSD whereas I outlined how MDSD ...
Eclipse Modeling Days 2009 in New York and Toronto
October 20, 2009 1 CommentThis November you are invited to learn more about modeling with Eclipse at the Modeling Days in New York (November 16th) and Toronto (November 18th). Both one-day long events will get together experts of different modeling domains ...
Focus on Modeling at the first Elmshorner Wirtschaftsinformatiktag
October 14, 2009 1 CommentOn Friday, October 23rd the first Elmshorner Wirtschaftsinformatiktag near Hamburg will open its doors to elaborate on the topic "Modeling the Business". I will give a talk about some best-practices itemis applied in MDSD projects based on Eclipse Modeling. An ...
Profiler for Xpand/Xtend/Check
September 25, 2009 2 CommentsA polished version of the announced profiler will be part of the upcoming 0.8.0 M2 release of Xpand next Tuesday. It acts as a callback for any expression-based workflow component to measure the execution times of Xpand ...
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 ...
Heiko Behrens
works as a software architect and consultant for itemis AG in Kiel (Germany).
His current focus is on domain-specific languages (DSLs) where he is
involved with the design and implementation of Xtext.
He is a commiter for the Eclipse Modeling Project and openArchitectureWare.
