random notes from a forgotten workshop
I stumbled across some random notes I took in a workshop a while back. "W3C does not produce standards" - you just keep tellin' yourself that!Standards groups as a means for market research.Cult of...
View Articlegood gantt
I've promised to do some Gantt charts. By the end of the week, no less. Honest to blog, what am I becoming?
View Articlestarting with a trickle
After four weeks, we now finally have a source code repository, our adopted base framework has been checked in, and stuff from our project is just starting to trickle in. I know we haven't been sitting...
View ArticleSTEPS
(Via LtU) Viewpoints Research have published the first year's status report on their previously discussed project.This is a rebadging of the Squeak-Croquet crowd, who do cute enough stuff with...
View ArticleSTEP/Express
Over the last couple of weeks I've been getting to know STEP/Express. STEP is the language used to define IFC, which is the standard modelling language interchange format in the world I'm working at...
View Articletimely change
I only started using Outlook (or Outrage, as Robin calls it) about 9 months ago, which was about 6 months after I started using Google Calendar. the lack of integration between the two was very...
View ArticleWhat am i reviewing?
One of the jobs that becomes more prominent upon the completion of PhD is the reviewing of papers. I probably reviewed a half dozen papers a year during my PhD, usually on behalf of one of the full...
View Articlemeta-pizza
Its creator dubbed it "Fractal Pizza", but for this blog, it can only be Meta-Pizza!
View Articleposting hiatus
Its been a while since I've posted here, and its not the first time I've said that. I've been engineering away, trying to get the estimator feature-complete. I've had a couple of periods of high...
View Articlemicrosoft oslo
I'm really impressed to see Microsoft's continuing push towards modelling as important. Their hiring of good people over the years - Jack, Wojtek, Stuart, Steve, etc - and recently of recognising the...
View Articlerefactoring EMF models
I'm a software engineer now (well, kind of), so I am qualified to espouse great wisdom on my experiences in software engineering.Last week we had cause for a couple of refactorings in our EMF...
View Articlesteal this blog post.
From the book of xkcd. Amen.(You really can steal my blog post, but you should say you did.)
View Articlemodel interoperability in virtual design and construction
A couple of weeks ago, I presented a paper at the Knowledge Industry Survival Strategy (KISS) workshop (associated with the ASWEC conference) on the Gold Coast. The conference was about...
View ArticleUncertainty
I am back at work this week, but in a strange position. My present 12-month contract with the university expires this Wednesday, and although my next (6-month) contract has been approved and budgeted...
View Articlemaybe the NBN will be slower than what we have now
I enjoy reading about the NBN (most recently here). What I do find frustrating, though, is that although everyone talks about high bandwidth, no-one seems to mention latency.For those who haven't...
View ArticleArticle 9
My paper on bridging STEP and EMF got knocked back from MoDELS'10 this morning. Shame, I really wanted to go. Its been a long time between conferences now.
View Articletrying the "commercial" software thing
A couple of friends and I have written an app for the Apple iPad, called Puzzlement. Its a jigsaw puzzle game, selected because we felt it was a good fit for the device's touch interface and form...
View ArticleBiden on Copyright
Last week (or a little longer ago), US vice president Biden claimed "Piracy is theft, clean and simple"In fact, not only is "piracy" not theft, plain and simple (as per the US supreme court in Dowling...
View ArticleSoSyM paper on interoperability in BIM
Last year, Robin and I presented a paper on interoperability of models in the architecture/engineering/construction space. Subsequent to that, with the aid of Bianca (a PhD student of Robin's), we...
View Articlemoving on
Some people who follow me on twitter and had some inside connections already knew this was happening, but it probably warrants a proper announcement for anyone else who's still subscribed here or...
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