December 2005 - Posts

Seven stages of models
There aren't really seven, but it makes for a good title (look up "seven stages shakespeare" if you're feeling puzzled at this point.) Anyway, I've been watching a debate between Harry , Gareth and now Steven , on the process of building models, including Read More...
Posted 22 December 05 10:43 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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The ideal tool...
Just noticed this little nugget over on Steven's blog at MetaCase (just gloss over the blatant marketing): "Obviously the ideal tool would be as fast and powerful to use as MetaEdit+, and have its maturity, but also have the extensibility of Microsoft's Read More...
Posted 22 December 05 10:22 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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DSL tools samples download now available
Like buses, you wait a while then two come at once. That's right, just a week after we released the latest version of DSL Tools, we've also released an update to the samples. This download includes: A complete end-to-end sample of a project in which most Read More...
Posted 13 December 05 12:09 by Stuart Kent | 4 Comments   
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The creator of WiX blogs about the deployment feature in the new release of DSL Tools
In the latest release of DSL Tools we make use of the WiX toolset to create MSIs. Rob Mensching, the creator of this toolset, has blogged about what we have done. Without WiX, our job would have been much harder in implementing this feature... so thanks, Read More...
Posted 06 December 05 10:01 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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New release of DSL Tools available
Our next release of DSL Tools is now available. This release works with the final released version of VS2005. Goto the DSL Tools website at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/workshop/DSLTools/default.aspx to download it. This is the release Read More...
Posted 05 December 05 10:22 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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Automating tedious tasks (2)
In my last entry I talked about how to go about automating tedious tasks for developers. Of course, developers are not the only people involved in software development. What about automating stuff for everyone else? Part of my job involves project management, Read More...
Posted 05 December 05 12:29 by Stuart Kent | 0 Comments   
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Automating tedious tasks
I've just added a new byline to my blog: automating tedious tasks . A complaint often levelled at Software Factories is that it will turn developers into automatons, just pushing buttons to drive the factory to do all the clever stuff. I think the exact Read More...
Posted 04 December 05 02:31 by Stuart Kent | 1 Comments   
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