Nice article on SD Times magazine where software experts comment on the fact that UML is still active but has lost part of the buzz that it previously had.

As part of the ongoing preparations for the next edition of THE Int. Conf. on Model Transformations (ICMT), the steering committee has appointed the two PC-Chairs:

• Eelco Visser (also in twitter: @EelcoVisser )
• and myself (also in twitter @softmodeling )

We have now moved to a new dedicated server. Bare with me while we finish fixing everything and give access again to the portal services . Thanks!!

AtlanMod has just been granted a Leonardo Da Vinci project for Exchanging knowledge, techniques and experiences around Model Driven Engineering education .

This is a joint project with Lublin University of Technology, Politecnico di Milano (in particular, my colleague Marco Brambilla ), the University of Alicante and us (in this project, "us" means the Ecole des Mines de Nantes).

Time to review the five most popular blog entries in June 2010 (according to your votes: number of votes=number of clicks on the post)are, in this order,:

• The interview with Johan den Haan (Mendix)
• My proposal of a Turing test for code-generation tools
  

Another tool launched in public beta this week is AtomWeaver developed by Rui Curado. AtomWeaver is a full implementation of ABSE (Atom-based Software Engineering) . Rui's own description of the system is the following: