http://blog.software-acumen.com Mark Dalgarno writes (mainly) on software Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:55:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The BCS Software Practice Advancement group has announced details of 5 evening talks from 6 leading experts looking at the State of the Art in software development. The series is charged at £75 for BCS & SPA members and £90 for non-members including refreshments.  All talks take place at the BCS ... http://blog.software-acumen.com/2008/07/18/spa-autumn-series-the-state-of-the-art/ If you have any interest in model-driven software development you should check out the 3 day openArchitectureWare Power Workshop we are now offering in Cambridge in partnership with the folks from itemis. These workshops are designed for developers who want to move from simply modelling software to model-driven software development (MDSD). During ... http://blog.software-acumen.com/2008/07/17/openarchitectureware-and-emf-training-now-available-in-the-uk/ The Call for Speakers for next year's annual BCS Software Practice Advancement conference is now available. The conference takes place from 5-8 April 2009 at the Robinson Centre, Bedfordshire, England. Here's the blurb: The SPA Conference, now in its 17th year, is the place where leading software development practitioners gather to share their ... http://blog.software-acumen.com/2008/07/16/spa-2009-call-for-speakers-available/ Many of the speakers at June's Code Generation 2008 event have been kind enough to allow us to put their slides on the conference web site after the event. All slides are copyright their respective owners unless otherwise noted. Keynotes Matching Supply and Demand: Challenges in Model-Based Code Generation for QoS-Constrained Software ... http://blog.software-acumen.com/2008/07/15/code-generation-2008-speaker-slides-now-available/ The Mathworks Automotive Conference took place in Stuttgart at the start of June. Engineers and researchers from Daimler Chrysler AG presented the results of their work on "Functional Variants Handling in Simulink® Models" - work that is partly based on use of the pure::variants software product line management solution. The presentation (PDF) begins with ... http://blog.software-acumen.com/2008/07/14/purevariants-case-study-at-mathworks-automotive-conference-08/ The programme for September's Software Product Lines Conference in Limerick has been online for a few weeks now and registration is now open. I'm running a panel session titled "Product Line Scoping in Practice" and a demonstration session titled "Jump-Starting Product Lines with Clone Detection" - more details to follow. The conference ... http://blog.software-acumen.com/2008/07/12/splc-2008/ Danilo Beuche has launched a new Product Line Engineering blog. The intent is to help share information about the field and related topics. Danilo is known for being one of the prime movers behind the pure::variants software product line toolset we distribute. He's a highly-experienced product line consultant so I'm hoping for good things here. The ... http://blog.software-acumen.com/2008/07/11/359/ Several local Cambridge businesses are behind a new lecture series titled "Cambridge Business Lectures" which begins on 22nd July with a talk by Cory Doctorow. Here's the blurb for this first talk: "We made a bet, some decades ago, that the information economy would be based on buying and selling (and hence restricting ... http://blog.software-acumen.com/2008/07/10/cambridge-business-lectures-new-event-series/ I'll be publishing my own reflections on June's Code Generation 2008 event real soon now but a number of the other participants have already posted their thoughts: Peter Kovari was first off the mark with postings recording his highlights for each conference day. Peter summarised by saying that "it was an excellent conference ... http://blog.software-acumen.com/2008/07/09/code-generation-2008-reactions/ Elektronik automotive magazine has published an article describing work done at Daimler Chrysler on managing diversity in the automotive domain. A basic problem automotive systems developers are facing is the large number of possible vehicle functions and options due for example to differences in target markets, vehicle type and engine capacity. This ... http://blog.software-acumen.com/2008/06/24/handling-functional-variants-in-simulink%c2%ae-models/