EMF Dos and Don´ts #10

EMF is a very powerful framework and with power comes…responsibility. You can achieve great things with a minimum of effort using EMF, but if something goes wrong, you can also spend hours trying to find out why. This blog post is part of a series on things you should do and things you should not [...]

From my point of view bootstrapping a new application is always tricky. Especially when you want to bootstrap an app that uses technology you are not yet familiar with. With this post I want to give you a step by step tutorial on how to bootstrap a Tabris application using Eclipse and Maven. So, let’s [...]

You can now download RAP 2.1 M2, the final milestone of RAP before the 2.1 (Kepler) release in June. This milstone adds quite a few nice features like bézier curves for Canvas, background-position and -repeat for CSS theming, and (especially) improved multi-tab browsing: It is now possible to host multiple UI-Sessions within the same HTTP-Session, [...]

EMF is a very powerful framework and with power comes…responsibility. You can achieve great things with a minimum of effort using EMF, but if something goes wrong, you can also spend hours trying to find out why. This blog post is part of a series on things you should do and things you should not [...]

On April 23rd, the Firefox OS developer preview phones became available in Europe – and were sold out in a few hours. The demand was so overwhelming that the supplier geeksphone had to shut down their online shop completely for a week. Now they are back online and have been busy delivering the phones – [...]

Spring has certainly sprung on the west coast of Canada, and that means we are into the Eclipse Kepler endgame. Milestone 7 is the last Kepler milestone before we start rolling out release candidates — with a scheduled release on June 26th 2013.  There are a number of new and noteworthy things from the Eclipse and Equinox [...]

You have read the books. You are a clean coder. You know your language, your tools and libraries  and you know exactly what matters: Well crafted software, steadily adding value, and of course you are part of a community of professionals. There was something about productive partnerships, too, but that was a bit hard do [...]

Building an Android project can be challenging at times. The Android SDK ships with a set of helpful ant scripts, but has its shortcomings. It mainly lacks a well-populated dependency infrastructure similar to what maven offers (ivy doesn’t count). Hence, the natural evolution of build process spawned the maven android plugin. The plugin allows you to infuse [...]