Eclipse Client Platform

The Eclipse client platform looks really inteesting. Here is a tutorial how to install and use it.

Type system with Xtext

I just saw the project regarding types
http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/xtext-typesystem/

Eclipse and Modeling

Some pointers for me to remember:
- Topcased
- Graphiti BPMN Example

Cool technology

Graphiti seems to be cool ...
    http://www.eclipse.org/graphiti/download.php

Business Architecture Links

Here are some links related to business architecture:

• http://www.infosys.com/offerings/IT-services/architecture-services/white-papers/Documents/enterprise-business-architecture.pdf
• http://www.enterprisebusinessarchitecture.com/documents/EBA_The_Formal_Link.pdf

Copy table from word to excel ...

I just had to convert a word table (nicely formatted with bullet list, etc.) into an excel table.

The native approach with Copy and Paste does not work as each bullet in the list results in an own cell in excel.

Approach:

1) Select the table in word
2) Replace '^p' with ';'
3) Replace '^l' with ';'
4) Format bullet list to no bullet list
5) Replace ';;' with ';' ...

Copy - Paste

Learning to program excel with c#

After some time I figured out how to set ranges with row and column numbers.


            range = xlWorkSheet.get_Range(xlWorkSheet.Cells[r1, c1], xlWorkSheet.Cells[r2, c2]);

where r1, r2, c1, c2 are all integers

and xlWorkSheet is the worksheet under work