An interview to someone with interesting things to say about software development, software engineering or open-source
Jan Köhnlein is a leading expert in DSL design and an Xtext committer. After obtaining his PhD from the Technical University of Hamburg he worked for companies very well known in the modeling field: Gentleware and Itemis. Recently he founded TypeFox together with Sven Efftinge and Moritz Eysholdt. I thought it was a good moment […]
I am very interested in tools which support the software development process, making automatic the boring bits. One system which permits to go in that direction is Walkmod: a smart tool which can refactor Java projects and enforce code conventions. It is a quite powerful tool and it should ges more and more attention. TL; DR: Tools […]
I think that there are a lot of people looking for ways to get involved in Open-Source projects. I thought I could help by collecting a few stories from people who already started giving back to the community. A few weeks ago I talked with Luca Barbato and today I am going to talk with David Åse. How David and I met Recently […]
I am hearing a lot of persons interested in open-source and giving back to the community. I think it can be an exciting experience and it can be positive in many different ways: first of all more contributors mean better open-source software being produced and that is great, but it also means that the persons […]