January 2005 - Posts

DSLs and customization
Fred Thwaites has asked a question in response to this post . He asks: "Does this imply that in general users of DSL in VS2005 will need to be aware of this metamodel, or will VS2005 come with a comprehensive set of predefined DSL's filling all the cells Read More...
Posted 31 January 05 11:02 by Stuart Kent | 2 Comments   
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New blog
My friend Jean Bezivin, a well-known figure in the 'model engineering' research community, has started a blog . There are already a couple of good posts worth reading. I look forward to reading more. Read More...
Posted 14 January 05 11:31 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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Walkthroughs for DSL tools available
Three tutorial documents which 'walk through' various aspects of the December release of our DSL Tools are now available for download in a zip file. You can also navigate to them from the DSL Tools December release . Read More...
Posted 14 January 05 07:46 by Stuart Kent | 5 Comments   
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Why we view a domain model as a tree
In some feedback to my last posting, there was a question about why we visualized a domain model as a tree, with the point that this seemed inappropriate for some domain models. This is an interesting question, and warrants a more public response. So, Read More...
Posted 06 January 05 04:12 by Stuart Kent | 9 Comments   
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The UML / DSL debate
There's been some debate between some of my MSFT colleagues ( Alan Wills , Steve Cook , Jack Greenfield ) and Grady Booch and others over at IBM around UML and DSLs. For those interested, Grady actually posted an article on UML and DSLs back in May last Read More...
Posted 04 January 05 04:59 by Stuart Kent | 6 Comments   
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