Code Generation 2011

I’ve been having a closer look at the Code Generation event programme since my booking was confirmed. I can’t quite decide between a few of the sessions, but at the moment I think I’m most likely to choose these:

Day 1

• Can UML-Based Code Generation Be Efficient?
• Mixing Diagram, Tree, Text, Table and Form editors to build a Kick-Ass Modeling Workbench
• Model Driven Development beyond Code Generation
• Designing an Extensible High Integrity System Using Model Driven Development

Day 2

• Why program by hand in five days what you can spend five years of your life automating?
• WebRatio – how to get to 100% code generation and infinite virtuous cycles – an interactive session
• Cross-Platform Mobile Development with DSLs
• Generating Graphical DSLs
• Modelling the User Interface

That could change though, so I’d be interested to hear any recommendations. Unfortunately I won’t be there for the full conference, so don’t mention day 3!

Now I just need to organise somewhere to stay, and work out the chances of being able to park in Cambridge!

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Sketching UML

Just discovered a very neat tool for playing around with small UML diagrams online. I was pondering extending the social bookmarking model earlier in the week, to make it possible to identify duplicate tags without confusing unrelated links. For example, a page tagged with ‘plant’ could be about machinery, or trees. yUML looks ideal for this kind of thing, drawing this diagram:

…from this simple markup:

# Social Bookmarking Diagram
[<<Entity>>;Tag]*-related to*[<<Entity>>;Tag]
[<<Entity>>;Tag]-[note: Tags could be ambiguous without knowing what other tags they are related to{bg:cornsilk}]
[<<Entity>>;Tag]*uses-used by*[<<Entity>>;Tagger]
[<<Entity>>;Tagger]*tagged by-bookmarked*[<<Entity>>;Link]
[<<Entity>>;Link]*applied to-tagged with*[<<Entity>>;Tag]

I can see this tool being really handy. If you want to give it a try, there are plenty of samples to get you started.