Slight diversion from the world of modeling to say that my Roku M1000 Soundbridge arrived this morning. I've been hanging my nose over a network music player for what seems like an age and I finally decided to take the plunge. At first there were very...

The ever-up-to-the-minute Harry has a couple of snapshots of the first design experience that's part of our toolset, the object model designer for specifying the underlying conceptual model of your visual language: and a snapshot of the sort of designer...

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Finally we've announced the toolset that we're building and we're all off the leash to talk rather more openly.  You can read more about the announcement with Keith , Stuart , Steve and Harry .  Rob  has a summary of the coverage over on the Team System...

In my last post, I talked about a couple of the ways I commonly use coloured pens on the whiteboard.  A similar but subtly different use is for a different colour to signify a wholly different metamodel.  There I go, I've used the "m" word for the first...

I've been mulling over some more of the things that make a whiteboard so useable to me and how some of the ideas might apply to a future generation of modeling tools. One thing that struck me especially forcefully is the way I use multiple coloured...

OK, I'm actually going to talk about the modelling user experience for the first time. I did promise that this would be the subject of my blog and I've been a bit lax in getting around to the subject... I think there's wide agreement that sketching on...

Matt has a great post over at http://blogs.msdn.com/mattwar/archive/2004/09/17/230941.aspx . I know exactly how he feels. It's been four years now since I wrote any volume of C++ code. I've always thought of C/C++ as my native language after coming up...

I thought I should wrap up my posts about the generic heap sample that I put together with a quick look through a few of the minor but interesting points it raised for me. CLS Compliance As the class has only generic interfaces, it can't be marked as...

When I started, I thought that this might be a hairy part of the problem, but it turned out to be trivial. My guess was based on the fact that my original IEnumerator implementation maintains a version stamp from the collection that it is enumerating...

I shamelessly copied the delegate methods on my heap class from those on List . Delegate methods provide a step on the way towards enabling a separation in the collections programming model between structure and algorithm. You might express this as "what...

Originally in my heap class, null was a special value. The type of the heap was always object and so this made sense. Either the contained item was a reference type and null was a natural value to store for no item, or it was a boxed value type (which...

Apologies that I've not been much for blogging lately. We've had our heads buried in our deliverables for the last weeks. My team has a big milestone coming up and we also hope to have some interesting stuff to show at OOPSLA in Vancouver at the end...