Archive for May, 2009
e4 self-hosting first steps
On the e4 call today (open to all!) Eric and Boris demo’d the budding e4 self-hosting workbench. This shows both e4 technology in action (modelled UI, services, CSS styling) while using legacy views etc.
They showed:
Import from CVS
Adding a progress bar on the fly to the model to display the feedback for subsequent imports from CVS [...]
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DSLs for CSS?
At EclipseCon 09, Bernd Kolb, Tom Schindle and I briefly chatted that it might be cool to build a DSL for CSS. Of course we’d use Xtext
This isn’t a unique idea, here’s two DSL’s for CSS:
SASS
CleverCSS
Both are pretty similar. The main advantages seem to be:
Simplication of the syntax through the removal of characters [...]
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Make the presentation your own
Some people have asked me about the format for the keynote Tim Wagner and I delivered at EclipseCon09. For those who couldn’t attend, it can maybe be best characterized as a “play”: Tim was on stage seated at a pub table, coffee at the ready, reading the paper. I came up, Tim says something like, [...]
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