Keynote: Alex Russell

The Web Platform Is the
Past, Present, and Future

Alex believes it is long past time for us to take the web platform seriously. He will talk about the unevenly-distributed future of the web platform, and why he believes this future will be good for the server-side programmer.

Keynote: Peter Semmelhack and
K. Venkatesh Prasad

Building a Plug-and-Play Application Development Platform for the Car of the Future

Most of us don't consider our car to be a mass-market mobile device, but Peter and Prasad may change your view. They are collaborating on Open XC, an open source platform that aims to transform the car into a plug-and-play system. Their talk will show how developers can leverage the OpenXC tool set to take advantage of this emerging trend.

Spotlighted Sessions:
Sebastian Zarnekow

Xtext - Best Practices

DSLs for Java Developers

Sebastian Zarnekow knows a lot about Xtext, and he will be sharing his expertise in a talk on how best to use the Eclipse Xtext framework, and in a tutorial (with Jan Koehnlein) that will show you how to create your own DSL.

Spotlighted Session:
Alex Ruiz

Xtext Success Story at Google

In this session, Alex Ruiz will share the lessons learned while developing custom editors at Google, including the challenges of figuring out existing language features on the fly.

Spotlighted Session:
Hugo Corbucci and Mariana Bravo

StoryTouch - an RCP App for Movie Script Writing

This talk will present the story of Story Touch (http://storytouch.com), scriptwriting software developed on Eclipse RCP for Brazilian-based O2 Filmes, South America's largest movie producer.

Spotlighted Session:
Anders Forsell and Fredrick Attebrant

Experiences from Porting a Commercial RCP Application to Eclipse 4.x

If porting to Eclipse 4 is in your future, don't miss this talk. Fredrick and Anders will discuss the gains, pitfalls, tradeoffs, and limitations they encountered in porting an RCP application, and demo the app in its various stages of migration.

News

Feb
22

Code Quality with Sonar

Learn about Sonar, an open-source platform to manage code quality, in this Q&A session with Olivier Guadin, co-founder of SonarSource and an Agile ALM Connect presenter.

Feb
21

Win a Free Pass!

The conference is getting close, and and as we count down each of the next four weeks, we will award a free All Access pass – four passes in all. Enter the countdown here, and good luck!

Feb
16

More Hotel Rooms!

Thanks to our community, we had to add more hotel rooms in Reston. The Hotels page now lists two overflow hotels. So if you weren't able to reserve your preferred dates at the Hyatt, be sure to check the Westin or the Sheraton.

Feb
16

Learning from Your Peers

Learning from industry experts is just one reason to attend a conference. Equalliy important is learning from your peers. See Ian Skerrett's blog post for a list of sessions that could provide inspiration for your own problem-solving.

Feb
10

Who's got the hottest new product?

The Hot New Product Showcase is returning to EclipseCon! Read about it in Ian Skerret's blog post. Details are on the Showcase web page.

Feb
3

Builds You Can Trust

In this Q&A session from Ian Skerrett's blog, JFrog's Yoav Landman introduces Artifactory, the open source repository manager he developed. For more about continuous integration using Artifactory, attend Yoav's Agile ALM Connect session.

Jan
31

Dev + Ops

Everyone talks about DevOps, but find out what it really means in this Q&A session with Luke Kanies of Puppet Labs.

Jan
24

Integrating Lifecycle Tools

If you are looking for a solution for lifecycle tools integration, read about Lyo and OSLC in Ian Skerrett's blog post, a Q&A session with two Agile ALM Connect presenters.

Jan
17

The Future of ALM

We are excited about the impressive lineup of speakers for Agile ALM Connect. Their talks include sessions on tools, agile methodology, and real world case studies. Check out the list included in Ian Skerret's blog post.

Jan
11

Real-World DSLs

Domain Specific Languages are featured in a number of talks this year, including success stories from BMW Car IT, Google, Sandvik Coromant, and Sigasi. Other sessions feature specific DSL technologies. Read more about these in Ian Skerrett's blog post.