Comments for Miscellaneous-B http://lawley.id.au/blog Whatever was I thinking... Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:23:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Firewire networking to the rescue by Miscellaneous-B » Blog Archive » Wireless again http://lawley.id.au/blog/2007/10/31/firewire-networking-to-the-rescue/comment-page-1/#comment-2034 Miscellaneous-B » Blog Archive » Wireless again Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:23:28 +0000 http://www.lawley.id.au/blog/2007/10/31/firewire-networking-to-the-rescue/#comment-2034 [...] A while back I lost wireless access in the home. In a happy accident I was wandering through Harvey Norman at Indooroopilly today when I noticed they were selling Linksys WAG54GP2s for $93.01 - that’s ADSL2+, 802.11G, and VOIP in the one (discontinued) box at a very sweet price (hurry - they only have two left). [...] [...] A while back I lost wireless access in the home. In a happy accident I was wandering through Harvey Norman at Indooroopilly today when I noticed they were selling Linksys WAG54GP2s for $93.01 – that’s ADSL2+, 802.11G, and VOIP in the one (discontinued) box at a very sweet price (hurry – they only have two left). [...]

]]> Comment on Netbeans gripes by Miscellaneous-B » Blog Archive » More on Netbeans http://lawley.id.au/blog/2007/04/10/netbeans-gripes/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Miscellaneous-B » Blog Archive » More on Netbeans Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:28:16 +0000 http://www.lawley.id.au/blog/2007/04/10/netbeans-gripes/#comment-339 [...] Netbeans gripes [...] [...] Netbeans gripes [...]

]]> Comment on REST for the web, but why not the desktop? by Miscellaneous-B » Blog Archive » REST micro-kernel http://lawley.id.au/blog/2004/08/13/rest-for-the-web-but-why-not-the-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-338 Miscellaneous-B » Blog Archive » REST micro-kernel Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:56:24 +0000 http://www.lawley.id.au/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/lawley/WhyAPIs.html#comment-338 [...] Earlier I mused briefly about standard OS APIs based on a REST approach. [...] [...] Earlier I mused briefly about standard OS APIs based on a REST approach. [...]

]]> Comment on All I want in a Lifetime Permanent E-Health Record by Miscellaneous-B » Google and eHealth http://lawley.id.au/blog/2006/12/13/all-i-want-in-a-lifetime-permanent-e-health-record/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Miscellaneous-B » Google and eHealth Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:49:02 +0000 http://www.lawley.id.au/blog/2006/12/13/all-i-want-in-a-lifetime-permanent-e-health-record/#comment-77 [...] This is exactly what I’ve been trying to tell people ever since DSTC first got involved with HealthConnect via the South Brisbane trial and, more recently, to the people I know within NeHTA. I even wrote a rant (All I want in a Lifetime Permanent e-Health Record) on the topic a few months ago but didn’t publish it (until now) because it’s a got little too much tech in it. [...] [...] This is exactly what I’ve been trying to tell people ever since DSTC first got involved with HealthConnect via the South Brisbane trial and, more recently, to the people I know within NeHTA. I even wrote a rant (All I want in a Lifetime Permanent e-Health Record) on the topic a few months ago but didn’t publish it (until now) because it’s a got little too much tech in it. [...]

]]> Comment on Equality and Java boxed types by Miscellaneous-B » Java Posse on the case… http://lawley.id.au/blog/2005/03/23/equality-and-java-boxed-types/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Miscellaneous-B » Java Posse on the case… Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:51:15 +0000 http://www.lawley.id.au/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/lawley/javaMadness.html#comment-29 [...] Approximately 40min into podcast #034 the Java Posse address my question about equals() between Java Long and Int objects. [...] [...] Approximately 40min into podcast #034 the Java Posse address my question about equals() between Java Long and Int objects. [...]

]]> Comment on The Realities of Language Conversions by michael lawley http://lawley.id.au/blog/2004/07/31/the-realities-of-language-conversions/comment-page-1/#comment-28 michael lawley Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.lawley.id.au/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/lawley/realities.html#comment-28 Re: Quipoz Transformation Post Engagement<br/><p> I don't have first hand experience of the Quipoz transformation process, although I have had the opportunity to hear their pitch and quiz some of the people involved. Based on that interaction I found their claims plausible and worth investigating further. Unfortunately my contact was through consulting to another company and for reasons unknown to me they did not proceed. </p> <p> The risks seemed pretty small in contrast to the potential payoffs (for a very large COBOL system). There were some issues that I wasn't able to clear up with respect to how successfully they could handle reflective and generated code or other generated artefacts. </p> Re: Quipoz Transformation Post Engagement

I don’t have first hand experience of the Quipoz transformation process,
although I have had the opportunity to hear their pitch and quiz some of
the people involved. Based on that interaction I found their claims
plausible and worth investigating further. Unfortunately my contact was
through consulting to another company and for reasons unknown to me they
did not proceed.

The risks seemed pretty small in contrast to the potential payoffs (for
a very large COBOL system). There were some issues that I wasn’t able
to clear up with respect to how successfully they could handle reflective
and generated code or other generated artefacts.

]]> Comment on The Realities of Language Conversions by Darryl http://lawley.id.au/blog/2004/07/31/the-realities-of-language-conversions/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Darryl Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.lawley.id.au/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/lawley/realities.html#comment-27 Quipoz Transformation Post Engagement<br/>Have you had any experiences with a Quipoz transformed application? I especially interested in finding out whether or not there are any post engagement issues - such as development environment, J2EE solution architecture and amount of Java code delivered based on amount of original code supplied. Quipoz Transformation Post Engagement
Have you had any experiences with a Quipoz transformed application? I especially interested in finding out whether or not there are any post engagement issues – such as development environment, J2EE solution architecture and amount of Java code delivered based on amount of original code supplied.

]]> Comment on Logic Programming is NOT Magic by James Cole http://lawley.id.au/blog/2004/08/05/logic-programming-is-not-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-26 James Cole Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.lawley.id.au/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/lawley/magic.html#comment-26 I'm kinda stating the obvious, but I think the simple reason is that they don't understand how logic languages work (while they do understand how imperative languges work). Since logic languages being more declarative, the relationship between the code and the way that code turned into execution is less straightforward than in an imperative languge. And this means it takes more effort to understand the way a logic langauge works, and that's why we should expect this sort of problem to be more common in more declarative languages such as this (well, the relationship between 'declarativeness' and these kinds of problems probably isn't that simple...). I’m kinda stating the obvious, but I think the simple reason is that they don’t understand how logic languages work (while they do understand how imperative languges work). Since logic languages being more declarative, the relationship between the code and the way that code turned into execution is less straightforward than in an imperative languge. And this means it takes more effort to understand the way a logic langauge works, and that’s why we should expect this sort of problem to be more common in more declarative languages such as this (well, the relationship between ‘declarativeness’ and these kinds of problems probably isn’t that simple…).

]]> Comment on How will my daughter learn to code? by timbomb http://lawley.id.au/blog/2004/08/29/how-will-my-daughter-learn-to-code/comment-page-1/#comment-22 timbomb Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.lawley.id.au/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/lawley/earlyprogramming.html#comment-22 Well... obviously she'll learn Smalltalk :-) Well… obviously she’ll learn Smalltalk :-)

]]> Comment on Software Factories _is_ MDA by Juha-Pekka Tolvanen http://lawley.id.au/blog/2004/09/28/software-factories-_is_-mda/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Juha-Pekka Tolvanen Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.lawley.id.au/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/lawley/softwarefactories.html#comment-19 Real MDA and MOF?<br/>I share you view totally on the necessity to customize languages via metamomodels. However, I don't see MOF as a good basis to achieve "true model-based development". MOF is not orginally made for that purpose and it is focused on capturing UML-type of metamodels only. Note also that MOF covers the aspects of language specification only partially; it lacks some elementary expressiveness and is definitely too complex. MOF is also a standard which implementations seems to end up with something else than the standard MOF (calling it then XMOF, EMOF, MOF-like etc). If MOF is sufficient as a metametamodel, why that happens? Real MDA and MOF?
I share you view totally on the necessity to customize languages via metamomodels. However, I don’t see MOF as a good basis to achieve “true model-based development”. MOF is not orginally made for that purpose and it is focused on capturing UML-type of metamodels only. Note also that MOF covers the aspects of language specification only partially; it lacks some elementary expressiveness and is definitely too complex. MOF is also a standard which implementations seems to end up with something else than the standard MOF (calling it then XMOF, EMOF, MOF-like etc). If MOF is sufficient as a metametamodel, why that happens?

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