November 2008 - Posts

• Data is a mass noun

  Datum is singular. Data is plural. So we ought to talk about these data and many data and fewer data, right? It sounds all wrong to me. Data is like sand, water or furniture: a " mass noun ". I am very happy saying this data, much data and less data. Read More... Posted Thursday, November 27, 2008 3:47 PM by Steve Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: Pedantic

• Explicit Design

  Cameron has been blogging about new features in our product.. In a recent post he used the term Explicit Design. I've been reflecting on this, and I like it. In software development we really do need to capture design data that is not just the code, but Read More... Posted Thursday, November 27, 2008 3:26 PM by Steve Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools, UML, Architecture Edition, VSTS

• Oslo topics

  Keith Short has been blogging about Oslo and the DSL Toolkit and Oslo's use of model-driven terminology. There's been a fair amount of speculation about how all these things fit together, so it is good now PDC is over to be able to clarify the relationships Read More... Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 11:44 AM by Steve Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools, UML, Oslo

• New features for DSL Tools in Visual Studio 2010

  Stuart has blogged about the new features expected in DSL Tools in VS 2010. There's plenty new there: DSL libraries, DSL extensibility, read-only models, forms-based UI, ModelBus, precompiled templates, movable labels, sticky tools, copy/paste and more Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 5:16 PM by Steve Cook | 0 Comments Filed under: DSL Tools

• UML Syntax and Semantics

  So what really is the difference between syntax and semantics in UML? Firstly there is the notation, or concrete syntax. This defines what shapes are allowed on the diagrams: rectangles, ovals, lines, arrows, solid, dashed, compartments, annotations, Read More... Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 7:36 PM by Steve Cook | 8 Comments Filed under: UML