Value-Based Agile Culture
How do you create a strong, positive culture within a team/organization? I considered this problem several times throughout my career. In fact, I think about it all the time. At…
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April 28, 2006
Software Factories and Creativity
In this post, Paul Gielens mentions the article ”Design and Implement a Software Factory” published with the new issue of the Architecture Journal magazine. The article describes Microsoft’s progress in…
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March 20, 2006
Sick of Angle Brackets? DSL Modeling is (maybe) the Cure
Last week Jimmy Nilsson expressed his growing dislike for today’s overuse of XML, particularly when conceived as a surrogate programming language. I really share Jimmy’s concern, especially when I think…
March 19, 2006
Back on Track (and the Software Factories Architect Forum 2006)
Despite the fact that you probably haven’t noticed or cared, I want to apologize for my lack of posting in the last few months. Sure, I’ve been extremely busy, but…
March 13, 2006
DSLs are not frameworks
If you consider domain specific modeling products as simply glorified code generation tools, you might get away with just rushing through the product documentation and jotting down the first thing…
December 13, 2005
InnerWorkings is the New Company of the Year!
Today I’m finally breaking radio silence to express and share with you all my joy as InnerWorkings has been honored with the prestigious “New Company of the Year” software industry…
November 13, 2005
Clipcode-GoF-DSL and the One-To-One Mapping Anti-Pattern
Last week Eamon O’Tuathail of Clipcode released a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for some of the Gang of Four design patterns using theMicrosoft DSL Tools for Visual Studio 2005. It…
August 8, 2005
Web Service Facades
My good friend Marcus Mac Innes is just back from Amsterdam and posted a lucid report of what he saw at Tech-Ed Europe. His apartment faces our offices in Dublin,…
July 10, 2005
Tech-Ed Amsterdam…from Dublin
Tech-Ed Europe is about to start and I join Bill O’Brian in the multitude of really envious people that would love to be there. Instead I’m trapped here in Dublin,…
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July 3, 2005
Microsoft? Only Nice Dialog Boxes
About eleven years ago, I got involved in the development of my first “serious” client-server application using Visual Basic 3.0 and Oracle (using a data access API called Oracle Objects…
June 19, 2005