CEO of Obeo

I started as a software engineer with a hint of academia through a master degree. I got involved in open-source projects quite early through contributions to KDE or the Linux Kernel, I then joined the Eclipse community and I am leading couples of projects there (EcoreTools, Amalgamation) and I am a member of the Architecture Council. The itch I keep scratching is 'How can we make better and open tools, faster?' and that led me to domain specific modeling practices and technologies. I like to share my findings through conferences and happened to co-author a number of articles and research papers.

What makes EclipseCon Europe a good conference ?

EclipseCon Europe 2014 is getting close and it will only get harder to book hotel rooms and flights. It's probably time to decide whether you come or not. Let me tell you what you can expect from such an event : Getting in touch with the technology,  the people behind it and its users. I would argue that this is the main point of such a conference. Those 3 days are filled with presentations either...

Eclipse @Devoxx

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 ...

Eclipse Modeling Package - The Road to Luna

Since the last public survey , my primary focus for the modeling package was :to include Ecore related technologies, or companion technologies with a low UI profileto only include components which are used largely enough to consider them as stable (and not in incubation)to ease the discovery and installation of the other Eclipse Modeling technologiesto include what is necessary (Git,Java and plugi...