October 2004 - Posts

• Eventful times at OOPSLA

  Today at OOPSLA I participated in a panel session about MDA . We had an interesting debate about what MDA actually is. I suggested that MDA proponents fall into the following three camps. 1. The UML PIM camp: MDA involves the use of UML to build Platform Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:59 AM by Steve Cook | 8 Comments

• Software Factories and Packages

  I read Alan Wills’ blog about his domain-specific languages tutorial at UML 2004, and it reminded me of some thoughts I had about the difference between a Software Factory and a Package. A Package is a chunk of software that is designed to encompass a Read More... Posted Friday, October 15, 2004 6:00 PM by Steve Cook | 1 Comments

• Looking forward to OOPSLA

  I work as an Architect in the Enterprise Frameworks and Tools group within Visual Studio. My immediate colleagues include Keith Short , Jack Greenfield , Stuart Kent , Alan Wills and Gareth Jones . We’re all working hard on making the Software Factories Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:33 PM by Steve Cook | 2 Comments