I'm back from a full week at Devoxx in Antwerpen- Belgium. I was there to present the Sirius project and Eclipse Modeling at the Eclipse Foundation booth. (by the way, thanks again to the foundation staff !) It was quite fun to be there with Jelena Alter, Marcel Bruch, Julien Vermillard and Gael Blondelle, we had a good mix of things : Marcel for the Java developpers with Code Recommender, Julien for M2M stuff (which was very hot at Devoxx this year) Jelena and Gael for the Eclipse Foundation itself and me with fancy graphical modelers.Here are a few random notes :The conference organization and setup is quite amazing. Wifi worked very well, the venue is a theather complex which means you always get to sit very confortably and the screens are just huge. There was some hacking spaces with peoples hanging there all the time, voting was easy thanks to a bunch of arduino modules installed in each room. Interactions were encouraged with tweets being displayed on every screen in between the ...

Again a great day at Eclipsecon :) Sirius BOF I think that this was the most amazing BoF I ever saw at eclipsecon (and I’m not saying that because it was about Sirius ;): we add a lot of attendes, each of them coming with their own domain models (or a demo one) and trying to create modelers using Sirius. After 30 minutes, there were already some nice modelers going on, and although we started to hear the Eclipse band playing many people stayed for… more than 2 hours! I think almost everyone did manage to obtain a modeler and understand how Sirius works, mission accomplished :) The night at the Nestor bar was amazing, the vibe was definitely good, and as always the Eclipse Fondation staff was warm and kind. That is why I did not manage to get up early enough to have the time to checkout and go to the keynote in time… Scala IDE (Mirco Dotta) How, that was an impressive talk. It convinced me that the barrier for using Scala has been blown up. Now you have tycho integrat...

Hi again! An intense day, as I was at the Sirius booth I did not attend all the talks I was planning to but here is a sum-up of what I saw. Quite a lot of impressing technologies today, the Oculus Rift was definitely an attractive attraction, a shame I did not have a chance to test it. Scaling Pinterest (Marty Weiner) Marty shared his experience in how to quickly make your software scalable. Pinterest, a web-platform, had only a few users and 3 developpers in March 2010 and gazillions of views every day in April 2012. Lesson 1: It will fail, keep it simple. Avoid using many technologies you don’t fully master and keep your architecture as simple as possible. Lesson 2 Choose your technology stack wisely to use technologies that are mature and wildly used by others: - Does it meet your requirements? - How mature is the product? - Is it commonly used? Can you hire people who have used it? - Is the community active? - How robust is it to failure? - How well does it scale? - Does ...

What a great day ! Sorry if this post is harder to read than usual, I did not have time to write it during the talks so I have to use my notes. I’ll try to do better tomorrow. Single Points of Failure: The Human Element of Software Engineering (Brian Fitzpatrick) After warm applauses to celebrate Ed Merk’s brithday, Brian gave us one of the best keynote we ever had at Eclipse Con. This is definitely in my top 3 with the EclipseCon France keynotes. It started with a quote that well sums up the talk: "Engineering is easy, people are hard". Although most of us has spent 5 to 8 years learning computer science, we haven’t spend one single minute to learn how to work with others. That’s why we spend most of our time yelling and complaining, instead of doing what we like. By working on humility, respect and trust, one could really improve his work conditions. One of our biggest issue is the genius myth: most of us want to be seen as smart, because we want to loo...

Hi guys ! Today starts the EclipseCon Europe 2013, plenty of exciting talks & events planned, as usual I’ll try to sum it up with day-by-day reports. This EclipseCon will definitely be the chance to take a walk on the wild side of Eclipse projects, with the first release of Eclipse Sirius, new major versions of awesome projects like Code Recommenders, tutorials and of course the BoFs which remain my favorite event as we actually can annoy the commiters of our favorite projects with our ideas. By the way, we’re giving a “hands-on” Sirius BoF tomorrow, come with your business model and leave with awesome graphical modelers for it! It’s been 2 years now that we have started this concept for companies, I’m really excited to see what the community will do with Sirius. Stay in tuch to get fresh news about the conference :)Lien d'origine...