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Oslo -> SQL Server Modeling

From DouglasP blog (emphasis mine): The components of the SQL Server Modeling CTP are: "M" is a highly productive, developer friendly, textual language for defining schemas, queries, values, functions and DSLs for SQL Server databases "Quadrant" Read More

posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:50 AM by aalialikoski | 1 Comments
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Model driven applications

I have now listened to the rest of the Oslo talks from the PDC. Just finished listening to the Florian Voss/Don Box talk about Quadrant, and that really opened my eyes in very interesting ways. Before explaining it further, let me come back to my previous Read More

posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 5:42 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Software Factories, PDC

DSL Tools and Oslo futures

Ok, it seems that the two are not that separate after all, at least from a future direction point of view. Both clearly have a roadmap in front of them and to me it seems that they will likely merge at some point in the future. See interesting posts Read More

posted Friday, November 07, 2008 7:57 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
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PDC day 2 random thoughts

Live id gains ground and starts supporting OpenID. Windows 7 has some cool new features: Mount vhds natively and even boot the host from a mounted vhd Simultaneously joined to a domain (at work) and in a workgroup (at home) as well as easier home Read More

posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:23 AM by aalialikoski | 1 Comments
Filed Under: Software Factories, Mobile, Silverlight, PDC

Episode 96: Interview Krzysztof Czarnecki | Software Engineering Radio

Interesting interview of Krzysztof Czarnecki, the famous coauthor of the book "Generative Programming". Episode 96: Interview Krzysztof Czarnecki | Software Engineering Radio Read More

posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:02 AM by aalialikoski | 1 Comments
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.NET vNext: modeling required

I have wondered a few times with Ahti what is the next big thing that happens after .NET. After all, .NET was introduced to the general public in Orlando PDC 2000. And, if you listened carefully, essentials were already talked a few years earlier. This Read More

posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:06 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Software Factories, General software development, Technology

GarethJ's WebLog : CSLAFactory.net

Interesting piece of DSL on top of existing application framework. Definitely something I have to take a look at: GarethJ's WebLog : CSLAFactory.net http://www.cslafactory.net Read More

posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:26 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
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Microsoft DevDays 2008

Tämän vuoden DevDays pidetään Marinassa Katajanokalla 13.3. Minä pidän siellä esityksen DSL-kielistä Microsoft-ympäristössä. Jos sinulla on ideoita mitä siellä erityisesti pitäisi Read More

posted Friday, February 08, 2008 7:25 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Software Factories, Finnish, Events

DSL Tools beyond VS2008

Stuart Kent has posted a roadmap for DSL Tools for VS Rosario and beyond. This one (post-Rosario, ie not very near future): First class support for cross-referencing between different models and multiple views. This is something that is really needed, Read More

posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:25 AM by aalialikoski | 1 Comments
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OOPSLA 07 recap

The week of OOPSLA is now over and life has now returned to its regular path. Some notes from last week's conference: Anders Hejlsberg was in a panel titled "Celebrating 40 Years of Language Evolution: Simula 67 to the Present and Beyond" along with Guy Read More

posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:42 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Software Factories, General software development, Academic, Events

OOPSLA 2007

Together with two Avanade colleagues from Netherlands I wrote & submitted a paper to the OOPSLA 2007 DSM workshop during last summer. The paper ended up as accepted in the workshop, so me and Gerardo are going to Montreal next week to give a short Read More

posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:26 AM by aalialikoski | 1 Comments
Filed Under: Software Factories, Academic, Events

Jezz goes west

I noticed that Jezz is moving to US, good luck Jezz! Hope we see each other somewhere. Looking forward to your insight on the software factories front. Read More

posted Friday, August 31, 2007 8:09 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
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Versioning and DSLs

With domain-specific languages applied to software engineering, versioning becomes a whole new challenge. Steven Kelly has written a short note on versioning with their product which is questioned by Gareth. Personally, I think that as long as the modeling Read More

posted Monday, July 23, 2007 3:26 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
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Gareth talks about DSL Tools

A short intro by Gareth Jones on what DSL Tools are and how you get started on building your own modeling language. What's more interesting is that Gareth mentions the new free Visual Studio 2008 Shell product that was announced at Teched US a Read More

posted Friday, June 08, 2007 4:51 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
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Book: Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools

Looking forward to Steve's et al book. Congratulations on finishing the book project! Read More

posted Monday, May 07, 2007 5:55 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Software Factories, Books

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