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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 prototype for the home automation DSL for which I decided to use MetaEdit+. I do have to ...

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 a modeling platform for DSLs and storing models? This development is however something ...

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 and Bryan Sumter developed my DSL further by making a version of the DSL for Microsoft Oslo, ...

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 of the first DSLs. The first DSLs will be used to define the capabilities of devices that will ...

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 that this will be the wrong way. During my Master’s thesis a few years ago I did an ...

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 will be to simplify the way of building add-ins to support several types of devices like ...

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. The paper describes some issues regarding the evolution of DSLs, some ...

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 constantly. This made me to decided to make some time free and share some parts of it. So ...

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 used as example. See: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb381702(vs.80).aspx