by Jordi Cabot | Jan 24, 2010 | (meta)modeling, talk
Today I feel like remembering Tony Hoare’s great sentence on software design, part of his 1980 Turing Award Lecture (published in Communications of the ACM 24 (2), (February 1981): pp. 75-83) There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to...
by Jordi Cabot | Jan 22, 2010 | (meta)modeling, talk, tools, UML and OCL
Read other interviews here TextUML is a textual modeling tool for UML that lets you create models at the same speed you write code . That sounds promising, doesn’t it?. Intrigued to know more about this tool, I had a coffee with Rafael Chaves (the creator of...
by Jordi Cabot | Dec 7, 2009 | (meta)modeling, talk
LAST Thursday, Ivar Jacobson came to the École des Mines de Nantes invited by the AtlanMod team TO give a talk in the Jeudi des Modèles series of talks. No need to remind this but, just in case, Ivar is one of the three founders OF the UML language together with Grady...
by Jordi Cabot | Nov 2, 2009 | code generation, talk, UML and OCL
Grady Booch gives his opinion on the UML as part of this interview . Let me just highlight the best modeling-related comments in the interview for those that prefer not to read it in full (comments mine): When we began with the UML, we never intended it to become a...
by Jordi Cabot | Jul 22, 2009 | (meta)modeling, opinion, talk
On Monday I had the pleasure of visiting Ed Merks (leader of the Eclipse Modeling Project and founder of the Macro Modeling company ). Among many other topics, we discussed some of the reasons developers use as excuses for avoiding modeling during the development...
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