Now that we're in the middle of an exciting Eclipse board of directors election campaign, you're probably asking yourself, how will I decide for whom to vote? You might well be swayed by folks like Bjorn who are actively campaigning; Bjorn's always got interesting new ideas. Then again, you might prefer Boris' more subtle approach of simply encouraging you to vote; I like that approach a lot! Or you might like Chris' approach of tirelessly and visibly helping to promote our community; how can you [...]

Aufwandsschätzung, Ressourcenplanung und darauf basierende Terminpläne sind bei allen Arten von Projekten essenziell für deren Erfolg. Das gilt für die Organisation von Umzügen oder Geburtstagspartys nicht weniger als für Softwareprojekte oder die Erstellung von Websites. Dieser Artikel stellt zwei einfache Hilfsmittel vor, die Schätzer dabei unterstützen, eine hohe Schätzgüte zu erreichen: das Gesetz der großen Zahlen und die Dreipunktschätzung. Der Artikel erschien in der PHP [...]

Since the search on Magento Connect is horrible I created my own. Just to help you not searching the extensions for built-in features, I added the feature lists in the search: Open the Magento Developer Dashboard

Since both converting all those strange ooxml units manually and searching the OOXML specification is not possible anywhere else, I created a dashboard for OOXML Development. I’ll add stuff to it whenever I feel for it. Open the OOXML Developer Dashboard.

EMF and all the technologies that have emerged around it provide a real advantage in developing Java applications the model-driven way. Qt is a great framework for developing powerfull fast cross-platform applications, but lacks support for EMF. I'd like to provide that.[...]

It's exactly one year since I posted my first tweet on Twitter - time for a review. Before I give some reasons why I use Twitter, let's have a look at some stats. I sent out roughly 2660 tweets, on average 8.4 per day: Looking at my tweet density, I hardly seem to be getting any sleep, which

Usually I hate it when APIs break. TMF 0.8 introduces a different scoping API than Xtext 0.7. It took me a while to figure out. So I’ll show the changes below: Component :     "component" name = ID "{"     (ports+=Port)*     "}"; Port :     "port" dir=Direction name=ID ":"  ref=[Interface|ID] ";"     ; enum Direction :     IN="in" | OUT="out"; Instance:     "instance" name=ID ":" [...]

last night (in europe ) the EMO @ eclipse.org has declared the creation review as successful for our upcoming eclipse project Modeling Team Framework -> http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/mtf/. The Modeling Team Framework will provide a mechanism like a meta repository on top of several repository types. It could be the base for software configuration management of Eclipse projects which [...]

It was bound to happen: I was finally asked to be a model. I kid you not. The truth is stranger than fiction. It happened at Upper Canada Mall. Leaving a store that sells leather jackets, I was interrupted by a plaintiff "Excuse me sir, would you mind helping us out for a second." It turned out I was just the right build to act as a model for the lady's husband; she and two other ladies were picking a jacket for him. Being incredibly helpful and generally unable to say no, of course I obliged, volunteering [...]

Writing Eclipse Plug-ins is one of my major tasks. And everytime I start a new one or enhance existing ones it often comes to two situtations. First, there’s something going on in the code and you want to create a log for the error log view. Activators can do it easily by accessing their log. [...]