After a lot of behind the scenes work from a number of people and positive feedback from potential sponsors we’re now very happy to confirm that the (as yet unamed) Code Generation Network event I mentioned previously will definitely take place from May 18th - 20th at Homerton College, Cambridge.

Proposed topics include:

• industrial case studies, industrial applications,
• legacy-system migration,
• domain-specific languages and domain-specific modelling,
• software factories,
• model-driven architecture, model-driven (software) development,
• software product lines,
• program generation, program transformation,
• generative programming,
• feature-oriented programming
• template meta-programming,
• domain analysis, domain engineering,
• component generation,
• feature modelling,
• aspect-oriented software development,
• reasoning about models including model verification and validation,
• generator verification and validation

Day 1 is planned to consist of workshops and in-depth tutorials.

Days 2 and 3 will include plenary sessions, keynotes, panels and other sessions from leading Code Generation practitioners.

We’ll be putting together a conference website soon but in the meantime watch out here or at the Code Generation Network for further announcements or send us your email address and we’ll keep you updated on any further conference news.

Call us sad here at Software Acumen but every month or so we track our position on Google and other search engines to see how our websites are doing against their competitors. We do this primarily using GoogleRankings.

The Code Generation Network, our site on, er, Code Generation, always rates very highly on the keywords we expect e.g. Code Generation, Code Generator and variants thereof. This is largely due to the sterling efforts of the previous editor Jack Herrington in building and promoting the site’s great content.

However, we’ve been pleased to see that our software-acumen.com site has been doing rather well of late. So well in fact that we’re now officially number 1 for the term ’software variants’.

Now given the dynamic nature of the web this could all have changed by the time you read this but we were pretty excited. Also, the issue still remains, how to persuade potential customers that they should be typing ’software variants’ into Google in order to solve their variant management problems - answers on a postcard please.