Antoine Savelkoul

The end of 'Oslo' as a language workbench?

If you follow blogs of other Oslo enthusiastic, you couldn't have missed it. Oslo , the codename for Microsoft's new modeling platform, has been renamed to SQL Server Modeling . Confirms this that the focus will shift to SQL Server instead of creating

Questionnaire DSL at PDC09

In my previous blog posts and papers I referred to my master's project. During this project I designed and build a prototype of a DSL for medical statements. My DSL is now used within Avanade Netherlands as a case study for other interns. Michael Wolbert

First designs for the home automation DSLs

When writing this post I realized how many design choices I have already made while designing the first prototype. Too much to blog about, so I will only discuss a few design choices I have made. Firstly, I would like to start with describing the domain

Automated home: Applying Interaction Design on DSLs

In my previous posts I have given an impression of the current situation (how the hardware is connected, which software I use). It is very tempting to dig into hardware and software details now, but during previous experiences with designing DSLs I learned

Still busy with DSLs

After moving to the apartment of my girlfriend and my and doing some jobs to make it our place, I recently took a week off to work on some of my ideas. One of the projects I started is a DSL for home automation and smart metering. The goal of the DSL

OOPSLA Paper online!

The paper “Building a framework to support Domain Specific Language evolution using Microsoft DSL Tools” Gerardo de Geest, Aali Alikoski and I wrote together for the OOPSLA DSM event of this year has been published on internet: http://www.dsmforum.org/events/DSM07/papers.html

Bottom-Up Approach = Reverse Engineering = Wrong decisions?

Some people already asked me when I will start with blogging. I really have to tell a lot, but usually cost me quite a lot time to make something clear to myself, and even more to others. But now I’m busy with my Master thesis, this is something I’m doing

Building a DSL for an existing Framework (Paper)

The whitepaper I’ve been talking about for months has now been published on MSDN. I wrote it together with Dennis Mulder . This paper describes an iterative approach for building DSLs by using the DSL Tools from Microsoft. The domain of web services is