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First dollar with the Amazon Affiliate program

Submitted by jordi on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 18:10

When I started this portal I joined two affiliate programs:

Pitfalls of informal modeling languages (cartoon)

Submitted by jordi on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 08:41
John Mylopoulos , in his keynote talk at the ER'09 conference , used the following Far Side cartoon to illustrate the misunderstandings thay may occur when using informal modeling languages: there may be a huge difference between what we say and what others understand!!

Simplifying the UML - the Request for Proposals is out

Submitted by jordi on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 20:32

The OMG has just released a draft UML Simplification RFP . Unfortunately, right now this document is only available to OMG members. However, this proves that the OMG is really serious about the need of simplifying the complexity of the current version of the UML language and this is good news for all of us!!

Code-Generation conference 2009 - Slides available

Submitted by jordi on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 17:30

Slides for many of the talks in the Code Generation 2009 conference are now online . Some of the featured talks are:

  • MDD: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly / MDD: The Best, The Worst and The Ugliest - Steven Kelly (MetaCase) & Markus Völter
  • Pragmatic Model-Driven Software Development with CodeFluent - Omid Bayani & Daniel Cohen-Zardi
  • Dynamic modelling and code generation patterns in CodeFluent - Omid Bayani & Daniel Cohen-Zardi
  • Template Specialization - Kathleen Dollard

Attending ER'09 - The 28th Int.Conf. on Conceptual modeling

Submitted by jordi on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 07:10

Today I'm heading to Gramado (Brazil) to attend the ER'09 conference where I'll be presenting the paper "Modelling Safe Interface Interactions in Web Applications" and the tool demo "UMLtoSBVR: an SBVR-based tool for the validation of UML Conceptual Schemas (plus, thanks to brazilian immigration officers a paper from an Iranian-Canadian colleague)

(Re)discovering the business rules manifesto

Submitted by jordi on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 07:32

I recently (re)discovered the Business Rules Manifesto that states the importance of business rules and how they should be defined/processed.
Some of my favourite articles in the manifesto:

  • Rules are a first-class citizen of the requirements world.
  • Rules must be explicit. No rule is ever assumed about any concept or fact.
  • Rules should be expressed declaratively in natural-language sentences for the business audience.

Retrieving portal content using taxonomy terms - fixed

Submitted by jordi on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 21:36

Each post/article in the portal is tagged using one or more vocabulary terms defined in my modeling taxonomy. Clicking on the term will retrieve a view page listing all drupal nodes (i.e. posts+articles) tagged with the same term.
Until now, clicking on the term redirected the user to an error page but now I've managed to fix the problem (at least temporarily, it seems it is not clear yet what makes Drupal to generate wrong aliases for the terminology terms).
Hope you enjoy a new way of browsing the site

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