The itemis blog

Accumulated IT knowledge

Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

XtextSummit goes EclipseCon France

Xtext is a well known framework and highly represented at conferences like EclipseCon around the world. It is always fun getting together with people who build great software and talk about their experiences with the framework. In 2014 itemis decided to host a ...

by Holger Schill

2 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

How to integrate headless code generation in your build tools

Did you know that YAKINDU Statechart Tools Professional Edition brings great additional features to the Open Edition? The newest addition is the headless code generation. In this article, I'll show you, how to integrate it into your favorite build tools.

by René Beckmann

10 min. reading time
Eclipse, Usability, Software Development

How to improve your GUI design with usability tests

Developing and actually using a graphical user interface (GUI) are two sides of a coin. As a software developer, have you ever wondered how users of your application are getting along with the GUI you created for them?

by Rainer Klute

8 min. reading time
Software Development

Are physicists smarter than software developers?

Did you spend last weekend like we did? Sitting on your couch, watching the new season of CBS' The Big Bang Theory? Then you know that the great Dr. Sheldon Cooper is anything but modest about his intellect. Can you match wits with him and prove that software ...

by Jens Wagener

3 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, Usability

Pizza, usability and a little slice of romance

What do these things have in common, you might ask? The answer is both simple and intriguing: I’m talking about a “Usability Speed-Testing”!

by Simon Eiterig

5 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

How to work with pointers in YAKINDU Statechart Tools

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE In my last article I covered how you can use arrays with our new version of Yakindu Statechart Tools Professional Edition. In this article the project will be expanded and some pointer magic will be ...

by René Beckmann

7 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

YAKINDU Statechart Tools Professional Edition 1.0.0 – new and noteworthy

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE The YAKINDU team is happy to announce the first release of YAKINDU Statechart Tools Professional Edition. This version expands the open source version that has been established for eight years with great ...

by Axel Terfloth

2 min. reading time
Eclipse, itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

Survey results: User experience with YAKINDU Statechart Tools

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE In October 2015 we started a short survey about YAKINDU Statechart Tools to get a better understanding how our users experience the tool, what we have to improve and which features we should implement next.

by Charalambos Panagiotidis

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Eclipse Xtext’s new umbrella repository

On November 18th the Eclipse Xtext project added a new source repository eclipse/xtext-umbrella. This article describes the reasons for this additional repository and what is developed in there.

by Karsten Thoms

7 min. reading time
Eclipse, itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

YAKINDU Statechart Tools 2.9 – New and noteworthy

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE The YAKINDU team is happy to announce the new YAKINDU Statechart Tools 2.9.0 release! Only 6 weeks after our last release we are proud to present you the new version with some long-expected features and ...

by Andreas Mülder

4 min. reading time

< Previous page Next page >