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Impact of having a blog post appearing in DZone (and similars)
Dzone is quite popular among the developer community (the RSS feed for the popular links category has around 25000 subscribers) so you may wonder how big is the effect of having a link to your site appearing there.
Top 5 posts in February 2010
According to your votes (number of votes = number of clicks on the post), the five most popular blog entries in February 2010 are (in this order):
What (some) programmers offer to do for just 5$
Fiverr is the place for people to share things they're willing to do for $5.
If you go to the programming category you can see the list of programming tasks people are willing to do just for 5$. I think we should not sell so cheap! (and to the people ordering these services, do not complain about the quality of the service, for that price I would not expect too much testing). IMHO, some programmers should take some basic finance courses.
Top 5 posts in January 2010
According to your votes (number of votes = number of clicks on the post), the five most popular blog entries in January 2010 are (in this order):
- Interview with Rafael Chaves (TextUML Toolkit - creating models at the same speed you write code)
- Call for Action - Setting UML free
- Drawing UML Sequence Diagrams "napkin style"
OMG initiatives in the health domain
IT news online reports about the collaboration between the OMG (Object Management Group) and HL7 (Health Level Seven International) in order to develop new standards for the healthcare industry.
As Richard Soley (chairman of the OMG) summarizes:
Tenured Faculty Position on Model Driven Engineering at École des Mines de Nantes
A quick note to announce that AtlanMod team is hiring again!.
We are now opening a Tenured Faculty Position on Model Driven Engineering at École des Mines de Nantes
Honestly, I believe this can be a very interesting opportunity for some of the readers of this blog. Feel free to contact me for more information.
Modeling tools news - Jan. 24 2010
Recent movements in the market of modeling tools:
- Artisan Software Tools and Aonix have merged to create a new, stronger independent force in the mission- and safety-critical systems and software development tools market. The merged company is named Atego
- New release of Visual Paradigm for UML
- Software Ideas Modeler : new lightweight UML modeling tool
Essential - A new MDD workbench proposal
According to Pedro J. Molina (well, and many others, including myself) "the quality and the applicability of the MDD tools is the main stopper when considering applying MDD for a software development project"
Call for Action: Setting UML Free- the WebUML initiative
The WebUML initiative wants to set UML free , that is, to release it from the desktop and bring it to the world wide web, where online technologies enable a more social way of modelling.
The claim that it is very difficult to achieve some minimal degree of distributed collaborative modeling is true. No need to repeat now the usual complaints about the XMI interchange format .
jUCMNav - A Eclipse-based modeling tool for the User Requirements Notation
Daniel Amyot announces a new release of the jUCMNav tool . jUCMNav is a free, Eclipse-based graphical editor and an analysis and transformation tool for the User Requirements Notation (URN). URN is intended for the elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation of requirements. URN combines two complementary views: one for goals provided by the Goal-oriented Requirement Language (GRL) and one for scenarios provided by the Use Case Map (UCM) notation.