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      • XText and KnitML
        03/25/09
        So I'm here at EclipseCon 2009. Someone tipped me off about XText a few months back, so I thought I would go to the talk.

        It sounds like it has a lot to bring to the table for the Knitting Expression Language. It has a way to express the KEL grammar in a formal way, which means that

      • Using KnitML, Part One: Creating the Pattern
        03/24/09
        With the upcoming release of KnitML Core Tools 0.5.0 (and the editor that goes with it), I wanted to show you how I approached converting an existing pattern, the Banff sweater designed by Jenna Wilson, to a KnitML pattern.

        First, I created a project named Banff.



      • Why an Expression Language is Important to Get Right
        03/18/09
        I heard Martin Fowler give a talk a few weeks back about domain-specific languages (DSLs) and their role in software development of the future. He validated a lot of the assumptions I have been making along the way with the Knitting Expression Language (a DSL for knitting patterns), so it certainly

      • KnitML 0.5.0M3 available
        03/14/09
        This is a milestone release only, which means there is a little ways to go before everything is ready for 0.5.0 final. However, I'm pretty confident that the "big" things for this release are in place. Please select the Milestone Releases link from the side menu to download the latest

      • Charts are Coming in 0.5!
        03/05/09
        Probably the most exciting feature of the 0.5 release is the ability to produce charts from KnitML patterns. Here is a picture of the Nutkin2 pattern in chart form:



        What you see here is the pattern produced in HTML format using a locally-installed knitting font (specifically t

      • Fixed version for Mac OS X 10.5
        03/04/09
        If you are running OS X 10.5 and were having trouble getting GPEC to work, try GPEC 0.1.1a. The short answer is that 10.5 runs Java 6, but Mac's Java JVM only runs 64-bit programs, and some underlying code in Eclipse still needs to run some 32- bit software. Since Mac comes with Java 5 as well,

      • GPEC 0.1.1 Released
        03/03/09
        A new version of the Graphical Pattern Editor / Composer has been released. Susan has been working hard to make it more usable and give it some pretty graphics. Thanks, Susan!

        Try it out and let me know what you think.

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