ThoughtWorks Deutschland is moving to a larger office and to celebrate we are planning a small party for our friends in Hamburg! The day of the event is also the day we move in. We will be sure to have drinks and nibbles for everyone but please understand that we may not have everything unpacked and perfectly arranged by the time you arrive. It's also likely that we won't have a seat for everyone.

At ThoughtWorks we always like to include some interesting content for our guests. At this event we have colleagues from ThoughtWorks Brazil in town, they will present a preview of their eclipsecon 2011 talk "Pimp my Editor - Taking Eclipse to the Film Industry".

Despite our new office having more space we do need to limit numbers so if you can make it please sign up. We look forward to seeing you!

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Presentations

Pimp my Editor - Taking Eclipse to the Film Industry by Fernando Freire and Alexandre Freire
This talk will present the story of Story Touch (http://storytouch.com), a novel scriptwriting software developed for Brazilian based O2 Filmes, South America's largest movie producer.

The development process took over 3 years using agile methodologies. The first version was released after just 2 weeks of the beginning of the project evolving to a full featured solution ready to compete with the Industry's standard solution. We will show how we helped our client shape his ideas into an unprecedented tool that gives the power of dramaturgy analysis to script writers.

We will share our difficulties and show how we used RCP technologies like StyledText, dynamic ContributionItems and P2 to build a complete desktop solution with an awesome WYSIWYG text editor, with features like pages, zoom, printing, line counting (with soft-wrap), variable margins and all the standard stuff you expect. We will also release this text editor as an open source plugin to give back to this wonderful community.

Story Touch is an RCP application which is updated to the customer base nightly, it has had over a thousand versions built in its lifetime. One month after it's recent launch it reached a thousand customers.

Speakers

Fernando Freire is a generalist software developer who has worked in different areas of technology, from systems administration to rich user experience design and implementation. His interests lie in understanding the complex business domain of the client and delivering the most value in the simplest possible way. He works as a senior consultant at ThoughtWorks, where he continues to contribute to open source projects and other social initiatives.

Alexandre Freire started programming when he was 9 years old and has since been dedicated to help others create beautiful and functional software to solve real world necessities. He believes the way to mastery is based on continuous improvement and that a working culture has to be based on feedback, respect, collaboration and learning. He currently works as a developer and coach for Industrial Logic, providing a mix of technical, managerial and entrepreneurial wisdom in his work with executives, managers, customers, analysts, developers, testers, coaches-in-training and others.