Raise your level of abstraction

February 2011 Blog Posts (5)

I'm new. What I'm passionate about now.

Hi,

I'm interested in "lightweight" modeling. Not a big fan of code generation but still I believe that modeling is essential for communication. (I'd call it model-driven software, too, may I ?)

So…

Continue

Added by Kenji Hiranabe on February 16, 2011 at 8:59 — No Comments

The Third Workshop on Behavioural Modelling - Foundations and Applications

Call for Papers

The Third Workshop on Behavioural Modelling - Foundations and Applications

BM-FA 2011 http://www.ou.nl/bm-fa

In collaboration with the Seventh European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications ECMFA 2011

Paper Submission: April 10, 2011

Authors Notification: May 4, 2011

Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: May 20, 2011

Workshop: June 5, 2011

We call for papers of minimum four…

Continue

Added by Ella Roubtsova on February 15, 2011 at 14:24 — No Comments

UML Survey: How is UML used?

Our friend across the pond, Bob Maksimchuk is a Principal Consultant at Project Pragmatics conducted a simple survey into how UML was being used. We found it fascinating and it generated some interesting discussion. Have a read and let us know your thoughts!…

Continue

Added by Derek Russell on February 14, 2011 at 9:30 — 3 Comments

HTML Form as a model to generate code from

In order to simplify the concept of what is a model and what we can do in a practical way, I will explain how to use a simple HTML form as a model.

An HTML form can provide us a simple and practical model to generate code from.

Looking to the DOM of a HTML form we can extract two main characteristics:

- Form name;

- Form fields;

Form fields by itself provide us other properties:

-…

Continue

Added by Adilson de Almeida Pedro on February 9, 2011 at 19:16 — 2 Comments

Not All Actors Live in Hollywood – Refining the System Boundary

Another great post from my colleague Alex I'd like to share with you all on use cases. We love it when you comment back so do let us know your thoughts!

It's the awards season, we're looking forward to seeing what happens at the BAFTAs on Sunday. But in this post we're not talking about Mr. Firth or Miss. Portman, we're talking about use case actors as Alex continues with his interesting series on use cases...…

Continue

Added by Derek Russell on February 7, 2011 at 11:43 — No Comments