This technical article by Rockford Lhotka hits again on the eternal debate about the advantages of code generation and the differences between generating at design-time or runtime… Design Time Code Generation and Runtime Model-Driven Generation The ancient history of my experience was completely around runtime generation. In fact, our products ...

As I prepare for Tech.Days, I have to recommend this session in particular. The Age of Software Industrialization (Pedro Salgueiro) I haven’t really studied the agenda in detail but this one will be interesting for sure. For more than one reason. :)

Great presentation about technologies (becoming) available for developing Line-of-Business Applications (whatever you may think that is…): http://www.slideshare.net/simonguest/next-generation-lob-line-of-business-applications Cool stuff there.

From time to time I end up starting a new C# project and bumping into the same old infrastructure requirements like exception handling, logging, caching, etc. At that point I always get back to Microsoft Enterprise Library... :) I really like EntLib but this time I had other requirements that prevented me from having a configuration file. So ...

IBM has an updated version of its ''Architect eKit'' which includes (among other things) Grady Booch podcast series and a webcast of Grady Booch on architecture.

There's a new wiki on the cloud about architecture. The contributors (software architects) are trying to put together a list of 97 axioms for software architecture. Go check it at  http://97-things.near-time.net/wiki All contributions will remain freely accessible on the site, but the 97 best axioms will be included in a book published by ...

Estão abertas as candidaturas para a Pós-graduação em Engenharia de Aplicações Empresariais para o ano lectivo 2008/2009.O curso de pós-graduação em Engenharia de Aplicações Empresariais pretende: Colmatar uma falha na formação de engenheiros informáticos ao nível da especificação de arquitecturas aplicacionais sistemas ...

IBM has started a series of articles related to Capturing Architectural Decisions at its developerWorks site.This first part of the series presents a domain meta model specifically designed to capture and share architectural decisions and outlines why and how architects should consciously identify, make, and enforce ...

An interesting talk from Markus Volter at  JAOO'07 about how to manage variability in a Software Product Line. The Product Line Engineering blog also has an interesting post with a clarificaton on the notion of version and variant.

Software Product Lines (SPL) are a way of managing the development process focusing on planned reuse thru a large number of products (a product family). The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) defines a SPL as (emphasis mine): A Software Product Line is a set of software-intensive systemssharing a common, managed set of features ...