Antoine Savelkoul

Next big step, building my own modeling tools. Let's blog again!

I have a so many ideas I would like to write about, but it is difficult to find the time to really do my ideas justice. Therefore, I decided to focus myself more on development then writing. Shortly after my previous blog post I made a start with my first

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

Event on Home Automation and Smart Living

Thursday I went - together with my brother (Martin) - to an event on Home Automation ( Beurs Domotica & Slim Wonen ). On this event a number of installers and manufacturers of home automation equipment were represented. We used this opportunity to

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

Going embedded

From the embedded prototyping systems I considered, the Arduino is one of the cheapest and the most popular ones. The combination with the ethernet shield will make it the perfect addition for my home automation project. This weekend I received the one

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

Automated home: The software

The hardware that I have selected offers the functionality that I will need for this project. Unfortunately, this is not the case for all the software that was provided with the selected hardware. PlugWise is the only one providing software with webinterfaces

Automated home: The hardware

In a series of blog posts about the domain of my home automation DSL I'd like to start by giving a first and high level description of the problem domain. I'm going to do this by explaining the current situation of my own home automation system. Since,

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

Finally online! My new blog.

After having a look at DotNetNuke, I finally decided to use Community Server again. Since there are a lot things that have a higher priority, easy of use is more important for me than a whole set of features I will have no time for to explore. The target