Friday, October 5, 2012

This was the first Eclipse Day Delft - A Summary

Last week, the first Eclipse Day Delft has taken place. With eleven fabulous speakers and more than 60 participants this day was a great success.

Erik Meijer opened the day by showing the participants how to program a teapot visualization in HTML, and inviting all to re-implement this in their favorite programming language.
The first session was started by Patriek van Dorp, who showed with a live-demo how Eclipse can be used to deploy Java to the Microsoft Cloud. After that, Marcel Bruch presented the helpful Eclipse Code Recommender tool, which can predict which code statement you are (likely) going to type next. The final talk in this session was given by Pupier Aurelien, who showed how the power of GMF can be leveraged.


After a very communicative coffee break, Koen Aers took over the stage and showed how the Forge command-line tool can be integrated in Eclipse. Afterward, I presented the results of the Eclipse Study on how Eclipse-based products are tested, with the title "Test Confessions".

After the lunch break, Sven Efftinge showed how Xtext allows to reuse and integrate all kinds of Java language constructs right in your language, by demonstrating one of the seven languages based on Xtext. Then, Matthias Kempka explained the recipe for successful Eclipse-based products, and Werner Keil talked about continuous delivery.

The last session focused on model driven development, and was kick-started by Martin Taal, who showed how EMFT Texo can bring modeling to the mobile web. Subsequently, Ed Merks outline how modeling for programmers and programming for modelers works with Xcore.

Finally, there was time to network and talk while enjoying some drinks and snacks. Organizing this event was a great experience and adventure, and I enjoyed it very much. All slides of the talks are online. You can find more pictures of the event here.