tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79519367164621147732011-12-14T23:33:47.988-06:00Nerds allowed and geeks tolerated.Ted Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00997056713713965583noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7951936716462114773.post-69594752755835080772011-11-29T23:16:00.001-06:002011-11-30T00:29:59.126-06:00

Now I am biased having just dealt with IBM's MQ product line and the walled garden approach to their tool suite, so I might be over complementary to Amazon AWS SQS.  Okay, one more thing about IBM MQ, just look at the website, tired, old, selfware; some might argue stable, but hype is the name of the game.  On the other hand AWS SQS fresh and simple, by name, approach, use, and in features.  

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This post builds on previous posts (1,2) and is serves as additional commentary and context to a post by  Franco Civello - UML for MDD - Oxymoron or match made in heaven?  Not sure what Model-Driven Development (MDD) is exactly, then check out IBM's MDD Redbook which is one perspective. UML is a modeling language with thousands of features and facets.  Most people discount UML, even experienced

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Tonight I tried to find quick reference sheets for both UML and BPMN, free of course.  There are quite a fewer different terms for them be it poster, reference cards, cheat sheets, quick guides etc.  However, once I got into several sites by searching for "Reference Cards" I found the other names for these small printable guides to various technologies. Oh yes, and much more managable or likely

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Connecting UML Components with the Ball and Socket notation in Rational Software Modeler (RSM/RSA) and Eclipse UML2 Tools is not fully implemented or flawed. Too fully understand my point you have to keep in mind that these tools are for modeling, not just drawing a picture/diagram. Thus the internal model representation of what you diagram must be correct and complete.The Need:I discovered

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I have to admit that I am lured into the pocket size form factor used by O'Reilly and others. The cute baby animals on the cover, like the gorilla on the front of the "UML 2.0 - Pocket Reference" is just fun. I also have "The Elements of UML Style" in the same easy to consume and not really pocket sized size. Parts of this review also apply to both pocket books, but the majority is about the

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The short lesson: When looking at eclipse features dig deep and work off the website and examples. Books are outdated quickly and are often written to just the major usage of a package or feature. Never be to proud to use the eclipse project specific mailing list.The story: Whenever I take time off work, I invariably take on creating some new thing or read a technical book, basically just go

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I like most people, I suspect, especially software architects and programmers, dream of white boards on every wall floor to ceiling. I have wanted this for some time for my office so I could doodle hours away in my office getting dizzy on the dry erase fumes. In the past I had looked for a quality product and failed, until now. Visiting my undergraduate college (St. Olaf) the computer science

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Martin Fowler and Markus Völter on DSLs - JAOO Conference Somewhat interesting discussion by some DSL leaders. There is a small bias around a specific vendor's software, but interesting to listen too. What they talked about, my notes:DSLs: - Internal - External - IDE/Language Workbench - MDA is vaporwareEclipse GMF/EMF/Textual LanguagesCASE Tools, COBOL, Fantasy that programmers are not

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I have followed the DSM (Domain specific modeling) happenings online for sometime now and at best the community is scattered and most discussions/happenings limited to conferences. However, the DSMForum.org pulls this information together for easy consumption. Don't be fooled by the dated last century website design, all nerdy modeling website look that way. The DSM Publications page provides

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I am voting earth, this blog post is my digital post for balance. You don't have to eat grass and walk to work to be green. Tonight I will go for a walk at 8:30 once the lights are turned off and then play cards, heck I won't have to code/program. I enjoy life, and I do it smart, they are not XOR or mutually exclusive.The phrase reduce, reuse, recycle is in order for a reason.1. Reduce your

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Have questions about UML/Modeling, then go on over to StackOverflow. I monitor the questions there and provide answers for two reasons:1. UML outreach for people starting out, not the easiest thing.2. Some questions require research, which I enjoy, and I find that those questions go unanswered.You can follow the questions I answer with RSS http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/30231Additionally,

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A post by lispy entitled "Why UML Fails to Add Value to the Design and Development Process" reminded me of an existing methodology put together by IBM.Lispy wrote (I cut a lot out) - "The modeling language must be a first-class citizen of the development process rather than just make-work for architects and project managers... There are two linguistic abstraction barriers that must be implemented

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Great minds think and do not always think alike. In surfing the web this week around clojure, Stack Overflow, Architecture and DSL (Domain-Specific Language) sites there is just a broad misunderstanding of UML. Really smart people seem to miss that UML is more than a modeling language with everything and the kitchen sink that is to vague to use. Just keep reading...really.UML is meant for

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In reading several posts on stackoverflow.com (and posting) and through personal interactions it has become clear that people hate UML because they think of UML as a drawing language and not a tool for modeling. Nothing new so far, however, I realized as people search to bring teams together or gain efficiencies in communication UML all together skip UML profiles. People would really benefit

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Over at Stack Overflow a question was posted "Is UML practical?". The question itself is fine, but several of the answers were so narrowly focused. I believe that the everyday developer only sees UML as only a common set of shapes drawing a picture. Granted it has a common set of shapes for notation, but UML is first and foremost about modeling. (Big surprise coming from a Modeling Website).

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The "Done, and gets things smart" phrase coined by Steve Yagge and the "Smart and gets things done" phrase and book by Joel Spolsky are great mantras of modes of operation for technology geeks. Modelers should make special note however as the job of modeling is viewed as overhead or just smart people's diagrams.The "Done" part for modelers is critical in several ways. One, Modeling never seems

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Not the most relevant first post, but what ya going to do. I just read the book More Joel on Software. Now if you don't know Joel on Software but still some how have arrived at my blog, which I consider VERY unlikely, here is the scoop. Joel on Software is a extremely popular blog with over a million reads on some articles. Joel Spolsky writes is a informal engaging way an takes on all

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The blog name "Model Architecture" is by no means descriptive or clear, however, it does provide sufficient latitude to post on most topics I am interested in. The goal of this blog is to start pulling energy back into modeling. The hype has faded and the subsequent contraction has left practitioners and new modelers in a vacuum. As the technologies and standards change, but the problems

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