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Top seven UML cheatsheets
If you need a quick reference guide for the UML notation, check one of the following, IMHO, gret UML cheat sheets (in no particular order):
- http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-uml :Newest reference card, covers all major diagrams
Modeling Safe Interface Interactions in Web Applications
A periodic table of visualization methods
Via Robert Clarisó , a link to a nice periodic table of visualization methods .
The classification of the methods is not very relevant but it's really nice to see a graphical example of each method to have an idea of what they looks like (hover over the cell of each method with the mouse).
Another grammar zoo
Frédéric Jouault sent me the link of another collection of grammars (in this case for SableCC) to add to my collection of grammar samples for popular languages/domains.
How well do you know OMG? by Richard Soley
Great post by Richard Soley reviewing the activities of the OMG (probably many more than you thought!).
“Future Challenges of Information Systems in Bank and Insurance companies” - slides online (French)
The slides used by the speakers at the “Future Challenges of Information Systems in Bank and Insurance companies” seminar that we mentioned in our post "Big companies starting to believe in model-driven development?" are now online . Slides are in French.
Survey Results: How often developers use automated code generators for production code?
I'm becoming more optimistic regarding the level of adoption of MDE among software companies (see for instance, my post on big companies starting to adopt model-driven processes ).
Oryx - a web-based and wave-based BPMN editor
With Oryx, it is possible to create and share BPMN models. You can also discuss and improve it within the same working environment.
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.
Some thoughts on simplifying the OCL
Jonathan Musset has just written a blog post on "Simple OCL" where he summarizes our discussion (by "our" I mean: Martin Gogolla, Jonathan Musset, Frédéric Jouault and myself) about possible ways to simplify the OCL. In particular, we focused on how to change the language to be able to write shorter OCL expressions. We tried to propose solutions that
would not break the language semantics and compatibility (e.g. by extending and overloading the OCL standard library)