The Metalevel

The recording of the Code Generation 2011 session about ‘Modelling the User Interface’ is finally available online at InfoQ.

For further details take a look to the slides and Conceptual User Interface Patterns.

During the video you can see a pair of demos:

•  Essential on action doing full UI inference and code generation
• and IO, the codename for a new proof of concept UI specification and WYSIWYG prototyping tool.

Once again, back home after the most exciting till date edition of the Code Generation conference in the latest years. The co-allocation of the Language Workbenches Competition has been a great incentive to attract all of us to join and present alternatives to a great challenge in the domain of modeling and code generation.

In this long post, I want to share my personal view about these days, and for sure, take note it could be partial and subjective. So, be kind to review also the comments as seen by others like Johan den Haan, Markus Völter, Angelo Hulshout, Marco Bambrilla, or Mariot Chauvin to cite a few and more expected to come. Find the majority of the pointers at the http://modeldrivensoftware.net

In this edition, the conference has been deeply covered via twitter using #cg2011 and #lwc11

As expected, I will be only be able to comment about the sessions I personally have attended. Running three tracks in parallel always force us to choose one and miss two other great sessions.

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Code Generation 2011 is the leading European conference on modeling and code generation. It’s a great opportunity to meet with the experts in the field and share the latest research in the area.

The invited speakers this year are very, very interesting:

• Terrence Parr, well known by its work on teaching compiler construction and the great tools ANTLR and StringTemplate, and
• Ed Merks, the leader of the Eclipse Modeling Framework

As a novelty, previous to the conference itself the first edition of the Language Workbenches Competition will take place on May 24^th in the same venue.

In this edition, I will be there again, more active if ever, taking part with some activities:

• On May 24^th, presenting Essential in the scope of the Language Workbenches Competition
• On 25^th, presenting on Introducing Model Driven Software Development
• And, later on, taking part in the panel Build or Buy – who should develop and own your DSLs and generators? organized by Juha-Pekka Tolvanen from Metacase
• Finally, on 26^th, discussing about Modelling the User Interface

As always, I’m looking forward to meet again the code generation community.

Take a look to the full programme and don’t miss the chance.

See you in Cambridge!

I’ve seen this video by C. Miller (via microsiervos) and I liked the idea a lot.

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

The technology needed to put this in practice is already invented. So, I hope to see these kind of things in production in the near future…