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links for 2007-04-11

• Mainframe: Microsoft Mainframe Architecture
  Is there a good use for Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006?
  (tags: mainframe zseries microsoft his)
• James Governor’s Monkchips » double A-side: What’s the point of Microsoft Host Integration Server?/Radical Transparency
  Governor’s answer
  (tags: mainframe zseries microsoft his)

links for 2007-04-05

• The Art and Craft of Great Software Architecture and Development: “Enough of Processes” or the Ascendancy of the “Toolbox” approach
  “Developer Cocoon” – enable the developer to write the best code they can as fast as they can but automate the drudgery of testing and finding issues
  (tags: software development automation)

links for 2007-04-04

• Panel @ CG07: Unified vs. Domain-Specific Modeling Languages
  Nobody at OMG came to defend UML over DSM. The main argument given for using UML is that it is a standard! No problem if it is large and complex, can’t be used for generating efficient code and leads to throwing away models at the end.
  (tags: OMG UML DSM DSL MDA)

Comments

Comment by Petri I. Salonen on 2007-04-04 02:32:12 +0000

I spent multiple hours talking to people that are very frustated of UML as it does not address any specific domain needs. I also got feedback from an authority in modeling field that some organizations are dumping UML and not taking anything instead… We are going back in software engineering if this is what really is happening. DSM is not trying to replace UML, but to help organizations to be more effective in product-family development and code quality.

Comment by Ferdy on 2007-04-05 00:13:07 +0000

Petri, thanks for your comment.

Actually I’m analysing MDD methodologies and I’m arriving at the same conclusion about UML (or OMG MDA) and DSM. We (at my company) have some successful DSL implementations, mainly where we have a well-known and stabilized problem domain. But this doesn’t mean we are not using UML anywhere. We only use UML for documenting purposes, not for generating code.

BTW, Jack Greenfield, from Microsoft, has a nice article called Bared-Naked Languages or What Not to Model that summarizes when and when not use UML or DSL.

links for 2007-04-02

• Eclipse Sold to Microsoft … – EclipseZone
  April Fools: the Eclipse platform will be partially rewritten in C# (to discourage future Open Source contributions) and integrated into VisualStudio
  (tags: humor fool)

links for 2007-04-01

• IBM hails Jazz collaboration platform | InfoWorld | News | 2007-03-21 | By Paul Krill
  comment: “well, what a surprise that IBM hyped THEIR OWN product. that is not news, it is PR. now if IBM had said something like “jazz is the worst idea we’ve ever had and we’re firing the entire team and sending them to Guantanamo,” that would be NEWS.”
  (tags: IBM Jazz)
• EarlyStageVC: Web 2.0 – Over and Out
  Startup activity remains strong, but the consumer web landscape seems to be populated with the same bodies with different skins.
  (tags: business web2.0)