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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New Xtext Logo
June 7, 2009 3 CommentsReading tweets, newsgroup posts, blogs, articles or press releases I am very excited to notice that xText gains increasing attention. As far as I can see most newcomers learn about xtext as a great tool to create ...
Xtext at Eclipse DemoCamp May 2009 in Hamburg
May 26, 2009 1 CommentYesterday's Eclipse DemoCamp in Hamburg was a successful social event. The organizers Peter and Martin scheduled the Eclipse Stammtisch directly after the demo sessions so that many known but (to me) even more unknown faces gathered together ...
Generation Gap Pattern
April 23, 2009 7 CommentsThe Generation Gap Pattern is a common way to weave manually written code into generated software artifacts. While this pattern describes how to structure your classes logically it does not teach you where to place these classes ...
Google App Engine for Java and Google plug-in for Eclipse
April 8, 2009 7 CommentsToday, Google announced that the Google App Engine will support Java. This is great news for every Java developer who wants to experiment with the cloud. At the moment Google grants an "early look" to only a ...
Xtext at EclipseCon 2009
April 2, 2009 No CommentsThis year's EclipseCon in Santa Clara was not only about Eclipse itself. For me, a silent observer who noticed this event only via the web, it acts like an important hub for many ideas and achievements inside ...
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.
