Making Slides Public

I have begun to make most of my slides public via slideshare.com.

Until now, it have just been the more relevant slides from presentations, I have held at various occasions such as EclipseCon and Eclipse Summit Europe as well as presentations from eclipse.dk and the Eclipse Banking Day in Copenhagen. You can also find some of my MDD lectures at the IT University in Copenhagen here.

I will soon also make the first part of my slides for Eclipse RCP training available via slideshare.com. It takes a little work, so stay tuned. I will try to maintain a complete list of public slides on our web.

Please note that for all the usual reasons, some of the slides and videos are in Danish :-)

ESE 2010 - Getting back to work can be hard

Another Eclipse Summit Europe is over and it is time to get back to the tasks that was postponed during the event. And it is time to reflect over what was good and bad in the event. If you participated, you should also consider doing the survey... this is the best way you can help improving the event.

I really feel I have taken a lot of interesting information back home with me. There are quite few technologies and projects in the Eclipse world - both new and not so new - I will have to look into in the time to come.

If I should point at one particular technology, I will have to look much further into, it will be XText. I have used XText professionally for the last year, but some of the things that was showcased at ESE, was well beyond anything I knew about. And I even teach about XText at the IT University in Copenhagen :-) The ability to use XText with Java types is one thing I will have to check out... especially the way the XText document was part of seaches!

Another interesting technology is OCL, especially using OCL to specify live constraints in models. A well known performance problem most have experienced is the needed re-evaluation of the constraints when the data of the model changes. How do you limit the re-evaluation to just the constraints that needs to be evaluated? For a large model, the naive re-evaluation can take seconds or even minutes.

I have just three wishes for the next Summit.

First of all, I would wish the venue could be at a different location next time. I have nothing specific against Ludwigsburg, the Nestor Hotel or Forum am Schlosspark, but after four(?) years it is just time for a change of venue.

Also I miss the symposium format we had a few years back. The Modelling Technology showcase we had this year was fine and extreemely interesting, but I also feel that it was a lot easier to get involved in the longer term chances of Eclipse with the old symposium format. I really want both at the same time :-)

The last wish is for more built-with-Eclipse stories. This is where you really see what is possible with Eclipse.. where the envelope has been pushed a little further than before...

Other than that, this was a perfect Summit, and many thanks to the organizers for all their work and impossible prioritizations.

See you all next year... wherever that may be...

Eclipse Banking Day in Copenhagen - just around the corner

In just two weeks, we will have an Eclipse Banking Day in Copenhagen. The event takes place at IBM's offices in Lyngby north of Copenhagen on June, 1. As of this moment there are 80 registered participants, so we have room for just a few more.

For those that don't know yet, here is the official description of the event:

Eclipse Banking Day is a day-long event for senior technical developers, architects and managers in the finance industry to learn how to better leverage Eclipse technology and the Eclipse community as part of their development strategy. The event will focus on three themes:

• Eclipse as a platform for application development;
• Leveraging Eclipse modeling technology for data exchange; and
• Collaborating with the open source community.

Attendees will have the chance to hear speakers from leading financial institutions and experts from the Eclipse community. This event builds on the success of Eclipse Banking Days in London, New York and Frankfurt.

Attendees to the event must be employees or contractors of a financial institution. There is no cost to attend but pre-registration is required.

We found many different and varied speakers - some with a banking background and some with a technical background - some of them are:

• Mike Milinkovich, director of Eclipse Foundation, giving the keynote.
• Martin von Haller Grønbæk, IT-attorney, who speaks about the legal issues surrounding licensing and IP rights
• Jochen Krause, Eclipse Source, talking about RAP and how an RCP application can be presented in a web browser
• Oliver Wolf, SOREPA, talking about SOA technologies in Eclipse
• Patrik Tennberg, Nordea, talking about their RCP application in the bank
• And many more

The full program is found here. There will also be ample opportunity to talk with all these people during the day.

We have room for 100 people from the financial world in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland) which helps determine the development strategy of their firms. It's typically people from banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and mortgage companies with titles such as CTO, development manager, system architect and the like.

Eclipse Banking Day is sponsored by BSI AG, EclipseSpource, the Eclipse Foundation, IBM, Instantiations, Purple Scout, ReportSoft, SOPERA and the RCP Company. The support provided by these organizations has made it possible to offer this event free of charge to participants.

Running is good...

...between the fine meals and many interesting talks... and the plenty beers in the evening.

I always try to attend the different runs that usually are part of all the technical conferences including Eclipse Summit Europe and EclipseCon. Not only because, you need them after long - and often interesting - talks in the evening - possibly with a few beer - but more so because the runs are very good chances of meeting people you would not necessarily talk with otherwise.

Today it was easy 5 km through some of the trails around the hotel. As Ludwigsburg is build on a small hill, it was quite interesting at times.

So a big thanks to our big leader, Chris Aniszczyk, for hosting the runs. And come and join the run tomorrow at 7:00 in the hall of the Nestor Hotel..

EclipseCon '09: UI Bindings: Slides and notes

I just finished my presentation on UI Bindings, a framework that can help you getting a more consistent UI in large applications with many views based on an EMF model.

The presentation was co-hosted with Olivier Moises - talking about Wazaabi - and Thomas Schindl - talking about UFaceKit. It was rather interesting to compare the different approaches...

I have uploaded the slides and you can find them on gpublication.com.

Please note that UI Bindings is released under the EPL license and can be found at Google code - for the time being...

Eclipse Summit Europe 2007 comming up

If you want to follow the preparations for Eclipse Summit Europe 2007, monitor the or the eclipse.eclipsecon newsgroup for the latest news.

If the event is going to be anything like last year in Esslingen, then it is worth your time...

Big turn up at Eclipse Summit Europe '06

There is a very large turn-up at the first conference in Eupore on the Eclipse platform. There are approximately 350 representives from both users and developers from all of Europe and a few places outside as well.

There are presentations on almost all interesting aspects in Eclipse:

• The new noteworthy show cases on the use of the Eclipse platform and especially RCP. Here we have already talked about JP Morgan; there are also many other examples. More on this later.
• New technologies with a common interest as AJAX Tools Framework and Rich Ajax Platform (RAP).
• Updates on changes in the projects.
  

Most of the personalities within the Eclipse project is present including Mike Milinkovich, Jeff McAffer and many others.

We are going to Eclipse Europe Summit

We are going to Eclipse Europe Summit in Esslingen, Tyskland.

This is a fantastic chance to meet with some of the leading forces in the Eclipse eco-system. There are speeches Mike Milinkovich, Jeff McAffer and Wayne Beaton among many others.

If you want to read more about the Eclipse Europe Summit, then visit eclipsecon.org.