An unexpected journey, and not Bilbo’s one

In my life, I've always been craving for travels, visiting places, experiencing arts and seeing new things. I never appreciated those kinds of holidays where you just sit and do nothing, I liked doing trips and sightseeing, I liked coming back from holidays more tired than then I left. Still, we know life is always … Continue reading An unexpected journey, and not Bilbo’s one

IFML on its way towards OMG standardization

The Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) is now one step closer to standardization by Object Management Group (OMG). On February 18 the revised version of the IFML specification has been submitted to OMG by a consortium lead by WebRatio and comprising also Fujitsu, Model Driven Solutions, Softeam, and Thales.The new submission has improved a lot … Continue reading IFML on its way towards OMG standardization

BPM and Cloud, the ideal partners. SMAU 2012 presentation

Questo workshop si occupa di presentare le tecniche moderne di progettazione e deployment di processi di business a livello enterprise, sfruttando le potenzialità degli approcci model-driven (MDE - Model Driven Engineering) e le piattaforme basate su cloud.Il workshop mostra come sia possibile affrontare con tecniche agili le problematiche di definizione e ristrutturazione di processi aziendali, … Continue reading BPM and Cloud, the ideal partners. SMAU 2012 presentation

My new book on Model-Driven Software Engineering

Model-Driven Software Engineering in Practice. See more on www.mdse-book.com. I'm really proud to announce that a huge joint effort with Jordi Cabot and Manuel Wimmer has finnally reached his end. Our new book on model-driven software engineering, on which we have been working for almost one year, is finally published! The book is titled Model-Driven Software … Continue reading My new book on Model-Driven Software Engineering

Trends in Web engineering: my 4 takes from ICWE 2012

At this point of the year, just before vacation time, it makes sense to me to think to Web Engineering practices at large and draw some trends and outlook for the field after this year.As a PC chair of ICWE 2012 (International Conference on Web Engineering), this year I can claim I had a privileged view over … Continue reading Trends in Web engineering: my 4 takes from ICWE 2012

Model-driven development on and for the Cloud: CloudMDE Workshop at ECMFA 2012

I'm glad to say that the CloudMDE workshop we organized at ECMFA has stirred interesting presentations and discussions.I've summarized the online comments in this storified list of tweets:http://storify.com/marcobrambi/cloudmde-workshop-on-model-driven-engineering-on-a.js[<a href="http://storify.com/marcobrambi/cloudmde-workshop-on-model-driven-engineering-on-a" target="_blank">View the story "CloudMDE workshop on Model-Driven Engineering on and for the Cloud (at ECMFA2012)" on Storify</a>]<h1>CloudMDE workshop on Model-Driven Engineering on and for the Cloud … Continue reading Model-driven development on and for the Cloud: CloudMDE Workshop at ECMFA 2012

CrowdSearch 2012: my experience at the First International Workshop On Crowdsourcing Web Search at WWW2012

Last week I have been attending WWW 2012 in Lyon and within it I joined the First International Workshop on Crowdsourcing Web search (CrowdSearch 2012) on April 17 to April 20 in Lyon, France. I enjoyed a lot the technical contributions and the extremely lively discussion and feedback from the audience (50+ people throughout the day).The program … Continue reading CrowdSearch 2012: my experience at the First International Workshop On Crowdsourcing Web Search at WWW2012

Code Generation 2012 – from geeky (programming) interfaces to user interfaces

For the second year, I've been attending the event called Code Generation, held in Cambridge, UK and organized by Software Acumen. For the second year, the event has been a quite good mix of practitioners, vendors and experienced evangelists.During the event, Emanuele Molteni (product manager of WebRatio) and I have given a talk on User … Continue reading Code Generation 2012 – from geeky (programming) interfaces to user interfaces

Sufficiently advanced software development methodology

I've been intrigued today by a bold tweet by Meinte Boersma (see his blog to know more about him and his activities) Any sufficiently advanced software development methodology is indistinguishable from model-driven. Meinte, I personally fully agree with you. Being also an advocate of Model driven development (and model driven in general, as this blog's … Continue reading Sufficiently advanced software development methodology

Model interoperabilty in MDE: a lost battle?

If you have been extensively using software modeling tools, you have probably experienced the awful situation where you want to move models from one tool to the other, but this ends up not being possible.Why? Because you are using different languages? Not at all: even just moving a "standard" model from a modeler to another … Continue reading Model interoperabilty in MDE: a lost battle?