by Jordi Cabot | Jul 25, 2012 | opinion
APIs are everywhere (just take a look at the more of 6000 APIs registed in the programmable web). At this point I think it is likely you end up creating an API at some point of your professional life. If so, please read these 25 rules of API Design by Matt Gemmell....
by Jordi Cabot | Jul 19, 2012 | (meta)modeling, opinion
Love this sentence from Dijkstra (as part of his ACM Turing Lecture on 1972: the Humble Programmer) The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise I couldn’t agree more with him. When...
by Jordi Cabot | Jul 15, 2012 | business
Practitioners do not read research papers so reaching them to explain how our great research can improve their (work) lives is not easy. We do it by industrializing our research tools but these two blogs: It will never work in theory SoftEng do an excellent work by...
by Jordi Cabot | Jul 12, 2012 | DSLs
QueryDSL is a nice example of a technical DSL aimed at facilitating the writing of SQL-like queries over a number of backends. Looks quite useful to me! This video shows QueryDSL in action, in this case working with JPA and highlighting some of the nice IDE features...
by Jordi Cabot | Jul 10, 2012 | Model-driven Engineering, transformations
MDE in the Cloud is one of our more recent (and still very preliminary) research topics. In a collaboration with Marcos Didonet Del Fabro, Cauê Clasen and Massimo Tisi published a paper in the CloudMDE workshop at ECMFA2012 about Transforming Very Large Models in the...
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