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Our first newsletter highlights two areas of focus for the technical program:            <b>Support for Emerging Languages</b> and <b>Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)</b>.           </p>                          <h1 style=" margin: 0; padding-top: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 20px; color: #333; font-size: 18px; font-weight:bold;">Support for Emerging Languages</h1>            <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px;">We're seeing a lot of new computer languages these days, and those language             communities are developing tooling support based on Eclipse.             </p>            <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px;">Check out the EclipseCon sessions on             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/ceylon-language-and-its-tools">Ceylon</a>, <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/dart-action">Dart</a>,             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/eclipse-xtend-language-made-java-developers">Xtend</a>, and             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/lua-tooling-steroids">Lua</a>.                      We are offering both a <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/language-tooling-orion">session</a> and             a <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/extending-orion">tutorial</a> on Orion (JavaScript).            </p>  		      		    <h1 style=" margin: 0; padding-top: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 20px; color: #333; font-size: 18px; font-weight:bold;">Featured Track: Create Your Own DSL</h1>            <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px;">Domain Specific Languages are a hot topic right now, and EclipseCon includes an entire DSL track.             </p>            <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px;">Java developers can learn how to create their own DSL using Xtext            in a <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/dsls-java-developers-xtext">three-hour tutorial</a> on Monday &ndash; how cool is that?             </p>            <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px;">Check out these case studies from             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/program-thou-shalt-behave">BMW Car IT</a>,             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/xtext-success-story-google">Google</a>,             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/bringing-power-eclipse-digital-hardware-designers">Sigasi</a>,             and <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/desagn-dsl-engineer-order">Sandvik Coromant</a>,             and these sessions on <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/xtext-best-practices">Xtext</a>,             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/light-weight-ide-extensibility-custom-dsls-groovy">Groovy-Eclipse</a>, and             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/xtext-best-practices">DSL Best Practices,</a>.             </p>            <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px;">If              you are new to DSLs, we recommend this <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/sessions/domain-specific-languages">DSL Primer</a>.            </p>                        <h1 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 20px; color: #333; font-size: 18px; font-weight:bold;">Remember Valentine's Day</h1>            <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine's_Day"><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/community/newsletter/ECon2012/images/hearts.jpg" width="117px" height="137px" alt="hearts" style="float: left; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 30px;"></a>            <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px;">Here's another reason to remember February 14: it's the deadline for EclipseCon early registration prices.             <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/registration">Sign up now</a>,             so you can concentrate on other things that day.            </p>                           <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 5px;  padding-bottom: 10px;">Invite your colleagues to attend EclipseCon and save money! We have <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/eclipsecon-2012-registration-faqs#group">group discounts</a> available for five or more people from the             same organization. Some caveats apply, so <a href="mailto:registration@eclipsecon.org">email us</a> for more information.            </p>            <div style="clear: all">            </div>                           <p style="margin: 0; padding-top: 15px; text-align: center"><a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/registration"><img src="http://www.eclipse.org/community/newsletter/ECon2012/images/register.png" alt="register now button"></a>            </p>                                                               </td>                </tr>                <tr>          <td colspan="2" height="20">&nbsp;</td>        </tr>        <tr>          <td colspan="2" valign="middle" bordercolor="2"  style="height: 45px; font-size: 10px; color: #ffffff; padding-left: 43px; background-color: #003399;">                  <p align="center" style="text-align: center; line-height: 11px; font-size: 11px;" >Copyright © 2012 The Eclipse Foundation. 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