I met John Crupi - CTO of Sun's Enterprise Web Service Practice - at OOPSLA last year. Very cool guy. I hadn't realized he started blogging last month until Steve Vinoski linked to him. There seems to be some disagreement regarding using a top-down approach...

Talk about transparency: Pretty much everyone involved in the DSL toolkit is blogging. Keith , Jack , Steve , Stuart , Gareth , Alan and Jochen . Plus, I bug these guys on email alot and they always have answers. A couple of recent items from these folks...

"Architecture is about how you decide not what you decide" Thanks for the kind words Paul.

Doug wanted to know if the new DSL toolkit runs on the December CTP of VSTS. In a word, no. The March DSL Toolkit requires Beta 1 of VS05 Beta 1 or Beta 1 refresh. However, at some point, there will be a version of the DSL Toolkit that runs on VS05 Beta...

Yesterday, I mentioned that you need VC++ installed to use the DSL Toolkit . Apparently, it's needed for building a DLL related to VS integration. However, Gareth let me know that they should be able to do that with managed code in a future build which...

I guess we're still three months out, but TechEd Bloggers is just getting ramped up. Not to many registered bloggers yet. So far, I'm the only registered blogger in the staff category . Last year, I was staff and speaker (the only track owner also presenting...

I've been doing a bunch of thinking about the use of heavily stereotyped UML class diagrams and how similar it is to the DSL approach. I'm working on a new post, but I wanted to parrot Gareth who announced earlier today that the March 05 CTP build of...

It's Thursday, and the Class Designer team is sticking to their new entry every Thursday policy. I don't want to just post a link to their blog every week, but if they keep doing stuff this cool I'll have no choice. Eugene Chigirinskiy could have just...

As he wrote on his blog, Pat Helland's last day at Microsoft is tomorrow. He's busily cleaning out his office right now. :( He's starts on Monday @ Amazon to help them implement a service oriented architecture. I heard their CTO was hiring . Pat's a big...

Ron from patterns & practices is not only blogging and webcasting but also podcasting . He's got two podcasts up so far. The first is a discussion with Billy Hollis about smart client architectures. It's pretty short - just enough to whet your appetite...

Javier got me thinking when he left a comment to my square peg model post. I'll get to intended semantics of class diagrams in another post, but I wanted respond to the latter part of the following comment: I suppose you are assuming that the Class...

As I pointed out in my last post , VS2005 includes a Class Designer that those familiar with the UML class model should feel right at home in. By happy coincidence, I found out today the Class Designer team is blogging . Additionally, two of the Class...

Robert Bauman left the following comment on my Separated at Birth post? The nice thing about using a general purpose modeler is that you can house all of your requirements, use cases, etc. in the same model. Rational provides the 4+1 view, Sparx...

Tonight I went to the monthly meeting of the local chapter of IASA . I should have also blogged this before the meeting, but I forgot. Sorry about that if you live near the Microsoft campus and wanted to go. Next meeting is on 3/30, so mark your calendars...