Blog overview 2008
| 29 December 2008 |
End of the year, time for a lookback. I wish you all the best for 2009 and I hope to see you again next year for some interesting discussions.
Below you can find the top 10 posts (based on traffic) of this year and a full blog summary shortly describing each post of 2008.
Top 10 posts
According to the stats these are the top
ten posts on my blog:
- MDA, Model Driven Architecture, basic concepts
- Model Driven Engineering
- Architecture, a definition (not from this year, but still popular)
- Architecture requirements for Service-Oriented Business Applications
- Combining general purpose languages and domain specific languages for Model Driven Engineering
- SOA and Human Interaction (not from this year, but still popular)
- MDA and Model Transformation
- OSGi quick start
- SOA and Service Identification (not from this year, but still popular)
I just want to give a recent post special attention because it’s a first attempt to bridge my interest in both enterprise architecture and model driven engineering: The place of Architecture in Model-Driven Engineering.
By the way, I didn’t take the time of publishing into account when looking at the statistics. So, articles posted more recently are less likely to show up in the top 10, unless they are very popular.
Blog summary for 2008
January
- Model Driven Architecture (MDA) special interest group on LinkedIn: I started a special interest group for MDA on LinkedIn. Until now over 1500 members have joined this group. You can still join today!
- MDA, Model Driven Architecture, basic concepts: post explaining the basic concepts of MDA as defined by the OMG.
- SOA Approach to Integration: book review.
February
- MDA and Model Transformation: overview of model transformation approaches and a way to classify them.
March
- Model Driven Engineering: post introducing Model Driven Engineering (MDE) as a broader concept as MDA. James Taylor had a nice follow-up article explaining how MDE shouldn’t only focus on developer productivity, because the model that should drive the engineering is a business model, not a technical one.
April
- Spring time…: changed the whole appearance of my blog. If you have suggestions for improvement please feel free to contact me.
- Combining general purpose languages and domain specific languages for Model Driven Engineering: this article explains the notion of model, metamodel, and modeling language. It also shows how ontological and linguistic metamodeling can be combined for defining DSLs (Domain-Specific Languages). This is shown with an example process modeling DSL. InfoQ picked up the article with this summary.
May
- Architecture requirements for Service-Oriented Business Applications: primer on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The first part of the article explains the project types to execute when moving to a SOA and it argues why a SOA is needed if you want to integrate processes. The second part goes into detail about service-oriented development (programming model, service types, implementation and standards). Recently Nick Malik recommended the article in this blog post, thanks Nick!
- Model Driven Experience: announcing the first Dutch symposium on Model Driven Development practices. I’m looking forward to the 2009 edition!
June
- Quality in Model-Driven SOBA development: article explaining how an MDE approach for Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBA) asks for specific approaches to ensure the quality of the resulting system. Model validation, model checking, and model-based testing are described.
- MDA MDD MDE MDSD MDSE: help!: just a fun post on the confusion in MD* abbreviations.
July
- OSGi quick start: just as the title says, a quick start if you want to start with OSGi.
- SOA Ontology: my comments on SOA Ontology Draft 2.0 published that day by The Open Group. InfoQ included the post in their news item on this draft.
- 8 Reasons Why Model-Driven Approaches (will) Fail: post announcing my article (with the same title) on InfoQ. The article was introduced on InfoQ by Jean-Jacques Dubray in this news item.
August
- DSL and MDE, necessary assets for Model-Driven approaches: article explaining what Domain-Specific Languages are, why you should use them, and how they can should be combined with MDE.
- DSL in the context of UML and GPL: my reaction on a post of Steven Kelly, which was a reaction on a post of Cameron Skinner explaining Microsofts view on DSLs and UML. This post is my contribution to the DSL vs UML debate. InfoQ picked up the discussion with this item.
September
- The structure of Domain-Specific Languages: post explaining how the structure of DSLs can differ in two different ways. An intermediate DSL can be a way to handle the complexity of using multiple DSLs with different structures.
- MoDELS '08: post announcing the MoDELS ’08 conference.
October
Posts covering the MoDELS ’08 conference:
- MoDELS '08: MDE is a hot topic
- MoDELS '08: Abstraction, the neglected side of modeling
- MoDELS '08: Domain-Specific Modeling
- MoDELS '08: Composition and Analysis of Behavorial Models
- MoDELS '08: The objects and Arrows of Computational Design
- MoDELS '08: Metamodeling and Modularity
- MoDELS'08: Panel discussion on the past & future of MDD
November
- Domain-Specific Modeling needs multi-models: article explaining the concept ‘multi-model’. It is a more detailed explanation of the combination of MDE with DSLs.
- The place of Architecture in Model-Driven Engineering: a first attempt to bridge my interest in both enterprise architecture and model driven engineering. This article explains what role architecture plays (or can play) in MDE.
December
- If Programming Languages were <T>: just a referrer to a fun post on the comparison of programming languages with religions, cars, boats, women, girlfriends, subcultures, mixed drinks, music, rock bands, art, languages, and Christmas songs.
- And of course this post.
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1 comment
Just wanted to say thanks for all of this great content. I find your posts insightful and I look forward to more in 2009.
Michael Davison () - 14 01 09 - 16:05
Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.
