May 2005 - Posts

• Software factories overview

  An overview of what my group in MS does: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vstsmodel.asp Unusually for MS, “software factories” is partly methodology, as well as a strategy for developing tools around Visual Studio. A Software Factory Read More... Posted Friday, May 27, 2005 7:16 AM by Alan Cameron Wills | 4 Comments

• workshop on agility and domain specific languages

  Steven Kelly of MetaCase and I are doing a workshop at XP2005 on " Agile Development with Domain Specific Languages ". Steven has been designing language-oriented programming tools for years, so it will be nice to work with him on this. Do DSLs help agility? Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:10 AM by Alan Cameron Wills | 2 Comments

• Adaptive Object Modeling with DSL Tools

  Erdem Sahin posted this question to the DSLTools web forum: Does DSL help to build Adaptive Object Models ? Yep, I reckon so. AOM is a very flexible architectural style in which business rules and other requirements are represented in metadata, and can Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:08 PM by Alan Cameron Wills | 0 Comments

• Composing DSLs in our tools

  Susan says : 1. Composing languages: a DSL can also be categorized based on whether it an encapsulated DSL that represents an application domain (e.g. finance, medical, etc) or an aspectual DSL that represents a concern that cuts across the application Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:40 PM by Alan Cameron Wills | 3 Comments Filed under: All Categories, DSL Tools