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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
Wednesday’s session about the DSL tools for Model-Driven Development in VS2005 was truly fascinating. Actually, I think that it justifies the investment of my trip across the Atlantic alone! After…