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MAGIT – A TEXTUAL GIT INTERFACE

This is not about the merits of Git. This is about working with Git in a text-based environment, to which programmers are (usually) used to. Having said that, we can now dive into the world of Magit, a text-based UI for Git.

by Gunther Bachmann

15 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext 2.18 – released!

The team around project lead Christian Dietrich has released version 2.18 of Xtext and Xtend. This version is also the one that enters the Eclipse release train number 2019-06, departing on time at June 19th.

by Sebastian Zarnekow

4 min. reading time
Software Development

Going fast is making things worse - Interview with Michael Feathers

itemis was pleased to host the workshop “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” by the author of the book by the same title, Michael Feathers. During this workshop we had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Michael about his ongoing work with legacy code ...

by Sascha Bleidner & Daniel Haftstein

7 min. reading time
Xtext, DSL, Software Development, IoT

Hardware/software co-design made easy using DSLs

Hardware/software co-design can be challenging. In this blog article, I am going to explain how model-driven development using domain-specific languages (DSLs) can reduce time to market and improve product quality in heterogeneous hardware/software environments.

by Tobias Jeske

6 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, DSL, Software Development

How to reference UML elements from Xtext DSLs

With the Xtext framework, you can build DSL workbenches in just a few steps. However, sometimes you want to reuse model elements already defined in other formats or even in other languages. In this blog post I’m going to demonstrate typical scenarios when you’re ...

by Tamas Miklossy

9 min. reading time
Career

From the intern to Xtend Commit in 14 days

Get out there, they said. Taste the real life, they said. It will be fun, they said. And they were so very right! In catching an internship at itemis, not only a wish came true, I also learned a lot about software development in an open-source project.

by Eva Pöll

6 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Eclipse Xtext goes shopping - The new Bill of Materials

With the new 2.17 version, Xtext starts shipping a new artifact: A Maven Bill of Materials (a.k.a. BOM). Learn about our motivation and how your projects can benefit from it.

by Karsten Thoms

7 min. reading time
Automotive, Embedded

Developing Robocar Software with Docker

In the recent blog post by Andre Stolpp, we explained the hard- and software architecture of our itemis Robocar project. For setting up Robocar, development was done directly on Raspberry PI. Although it is very comfortable to work on that device, it also has a ...

by Andreas Graf

8 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext 2.17 – The Java 11 release

The Xtext team is proud to announce release version 2.17 of the famous Language Engineering framework. 16 individual contributors have fixed almost 100 issues and 250 pull requests with ~600 commits – and that’s just in 3 months! Xtext 2.17 participates in the ...

by Karsten Thoms

8 min. reading time
Arduino, Software Development, Robotics, Automotive, Embedded

How to set up a robocar platform with a remote control unit

At itemis, we are involved in automotive software projects in terms of modeling (domain specific languages for architecture and behavior), tooling (architecture, feature models, implementation, machine learning) and concepts/standards (AUTOSAR, Genivi, openADX). ...

by André Stolpp

26 min. reading time

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