Grammarware, Haskellware, XMLware

I have shown, in this YouTube video , that spell checking equals type checking. I know it's pretty obvious but the encoding may be wort mentioning. In fact, this is not a serious post--it's an Xmas gift. Enjoy and Merry Xmas + Happy New Year. Ralf PS...

You can meet me here, too: http://professor-fish.blogspot.com/2009/08/same-guy-as-grammarware-haskellware.html Regards, Ralf

I have been talking about API migration a lot lately. I have even a draft paper in limbo ... so much in limbo that I don't even link to it here. In fact, I admit that it is very difficult to get anything done scientifically and practically on...

I am about to finish a short article on SYB in Prolog. Deadline seems to be in 30 hours from now. If anyone has suggestions, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Ralf http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~laemmel/OdeToProlog/ Scrap Your Boilerplate---Prologically! Status...

retweewter V1 (C) 2009 Ralf Laemmel README What is that retweewter? retweewter is a Twitter application. It is a toy application. It's absolutely useless, equally redundant and nearly dysfunctional, but it is fun doing this sort of code and app, and the...

So we are looking forward 8 "long" tutorials on different parts of the transformation/generation space of software engineering . For example, Bran Selic will stand in for model-based engineering and Jim Cordy will sketch his ultimate TXL cookbook. See...

I enjoyed delivering an invited lecture at the PhD autumn school IPA 2008 . Abstract For about 4 years now I have been sporadically talking about API migration as a scientific and technical challenge as well as a potential business idea. It all started...

So here is the long promised paper on the Java case study for grammar convergence . Getting all these huge Java grammars to converge was not easy. We are still learning how to do this properly. We are still working on our transformation language, but...

I have turned a bit too much into an org animal over the last year or so: several conference organizations, special issues in journals, way too many PC member ships (in fact, there are too many workshops that are like mini conferences). Add to this that...

Berenike, Bernadette, and Isabelle are all doing great. I tend to put photos of my kids online when they get born, and then never again, which I admit is strange; see here and here . (There are only two links because B&B are twins.) I guess we have...

Update: See the web site at http://gttse.wikidot.com/ ______________________________________________ What : 3rd Int’l Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques. Acronym : GTTSE 2009. When : July 6 – 11, 2009 . Where : Braga...

I have been somewhat silent for all kinds of boring reasons, but also quite so because I am terribly slow in grasping even basic category theory. (You don’t need to have any such knowledge to enjoy this post – just a bit of time because I guess this is...

The department of Computer Science, University Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz invites applications for 2 research positions, available initially for 2 years: * 1 PostDoc * 1 PhD student The corresponding funding is part of the state of Rhineland...

http://planet-sl.org/sle2008/ 1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) There are slightly extended deadlines: **Revised submission dates: Abstract submission: July 16th; Paper submission: July 21st** I also look...

I am crazy about language processing ! It is an excellent way to think deeply about programming , programming languages , metaprogramming , and it is the foundation of automated software engineering . Over the last 15 years or so I have written countless...

The call for papers for the 1st International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) is public now. I am happy that we did all the work to start this new conference. I am 100% confident in the SLE conference; it’s backed up by a strong and...

Recently, I started to re-wire some mildly used parts of my brains to accommodate capabilities for a 1 st year CS course on OO programming and modeling. Long before I joined the faculty in Koblenz, the course had been designed to get students going in...

CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Special Issue on Software Language Engineering May-June Issue of 2009 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Software Language Engineering...

I look forward a panel on "Grand Challenges in Software Language Engineering", which is going to be the closing event at ATEM 2007 , which is the 4th International Workshop on (Software) Language Engineering (SLE). I have attended a number of panels over...

I am ‘homeless’ right now, on the move between Microsoft Redmond to the University of Koblenz (at the Rhine and Mosel rivers, between Frankfurt and Bonn/Cologne), currently living in a hotel in Braga (Portugal) with 3 kids, my wife, 7 pieces of check...

I am extremely sad that I can’t make it to ICPC 2007 in Banff this week even though I had planned for this attendance almost an entire year in advance. The simple reason is that I am relocating to Europe this week and moving between continents is all...

Call For Papers 4th International Workshop on LANGUAGE ENGINEERING (ATEM 2007) "Languages Everywhere" http://planetmde.org/atem2007 Affiliated with MODELS 2007 , Nashville, TN, USA, Sep 20 - Oct 5 Papers to be considered for a planned special issue...

Here is just a quick update on the 2nd Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering ( GTTSE 2007 ), 2 - 7 July, 2007, Braga, Portugal. See my other plug for the school that I posted a while ago. In addition to the...

In January 2006 I published a first draft of “ Google's MapReduce Programming Model -- Revisited ” and I blogged about this effort some time last summer : “ Ana, cata, para, hylo, … – get it right! ”. I have finally revised the paper; in fact, it’s nearly...

Call for contributions Special issue on LANGUAGE ENGINEERING IET Software Journal (formerly known as IEE Proceedings Software) Scope The importance of metamodels, schemas, grammars and ontologies (or "language descriptions") is generally...