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Modeling / UML for the blind – Your input appreciated
Dear readers, I got this email earlier today: “I am registered blind and use a Screen Reader (software) to translate computer output into speech and electronic Braille. The screen reader cannot interpret images. Hence, I can neither read or draw diagrams. I am going for a job interview next week for a Business Analyst role
I envy the strong industrial involvement in the web research community
According to a tweet by Matthias Heinrich , the WWW’2012 conference (in short, the most important research conference on web topics) had a very strong presence of industrial players: “Out of 108 papers, Yahoo contributed to 22 and MS to 13 papers.” and more than 40 people from Google attended . Compared to these numbers,
Best example of multiple inheritance ever (thanks to Jean Bézivin)
I´m reproducing a picture that Jean posted in google plus to exemplify multiple inheritance. I don’t like the mechanism of multiple inheritance (at the conceptual level is sometimes useful but too easy to get it wrong and at the implementation level is just a nightmare since most technologies do not support it so you are
X3D-UML – Implementation of UML 3D with X3D
As a curiosity, I’m blogging today about X3D-UML, a thesis X3D-UML: User-Centred Design, Implementation and Evaluation of 3D UML Using X3D undertaken by Paul McIntosh involving the measurement of benefit in extending the Unified Modeling Language (UML) using the eXtensible 3D specification (X3D, the successor to VRML) to create 3D UML diagrams. The idea was
What do UML books talk about?
Vahid Garousi wrote an interesting classification and trend analysis of the UML books published between 1997 and 2009. The survey includes a word cloud of book titles (the words “UML”, “software”, “object-oriented”, and “systems” are very common in this context, so they were excluded from the input text ) that I’ve found interesting (and I
A coffee with Juan Carlos Molina – Integranova
Juan Carlos Molina leads the research and development activities at Care Technologies , the sister company of IntegraNova . These two companies take care of the development and commercialization of the Integranova Model Execution System (MES) . They have been around for twenty years now (I guess they are one of the first companies pushing
Workshop on OCL and Textual Modelling (OCL 2012)
You can start working on your papers for the new edition of the Workshop on OCL and Textual Modelling , the best forum to discuss about the new development about OCL and textual modeling in general. You can read the call for papers here: http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/OCL2012/cfp.php (and if necessary, you can start by reading first why
Summary of Code Generation 2012 (and the co-located Language Workbench Challenge)
Quick note to recommend you reading the summary of the Code Generation 2012 Conference and the co-located Language Workbench Challenge that Pedro J. Molina is posting in his “The Metalevel” blog. Great summary of what it looks like a great event. If you enjoyed this post you can subscribe to this Software Modeling blog ,
New open source UML editor by Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics (the company behind the BridgePoint™ xtUML UML Executable environment ) has recently announced its intentions to release as open source the UML Editor included in BridgePoint. Having more open source UML editors is always a positive step though you should not get too excited about this. Only the front-end editor is released, the
Real World DSLs – Get Introduced to Domain Specific Languages (presentation)
Another great presentation I’ve recently discovered. Mario Fusco introduces the concept of Domain-Specific Language (DSL), describes the different kinds of DSLs we may create, their pros and cons, etc. Great overview of the DSL world in just a bunch of slides! Real world DSL – making technical and business people speaking the same language View
