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 ...
Burlington Ducky iPhone App
October 2, 2009 10 CommentsThe people at itemis provide a vast range of skills beyond model-driven engineering. For me, this versatility yielded an iPhone project in cooperation with Weischer Mobile and phi mobile media where a funny marketing app had to ...
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 ...
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 58 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 ...
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.
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