Model Analysis / Transformation

Here are a bunch of links which are interesting:

•  Mola
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The passionate programmer by Chad Fowler

I was thinking a lot about the different attitudes IT professionals have regarding the business they are doing. Some work 9 to 5 doing the tasks they have been asked to do while others are continuously rethinking and improving  their work. The book 'the passionate programmer' by Chad Fowler gives various insights on this topic. So if you want to make a difference in your work - read the book and apply the stated actions. And - if you have lost the passion for programming or IT - it may be the time to move on ...

Enterprise Model Repository

An interesting blog post about using CDO, EMF and alike to create an enterprise model repository can be found here http://tinyurl.com/yaqew2h

Versioning

Versioning is a tricky thing. Versioning systems usually do not know the semantics of the things they version. The determine differences based on syntactic issues. The question is if a change in the whitespace (e.g. a new blank) should really be treated as a new version.
This sounds like a non-issue. The problem is that there may be simple rules in place which say that each change in the sources has to be tested. The implication is that just a little bit of prettyprinting or fixing spelling in comments is considered a change.
I think we need semantic version control systems going forward .....

Links related to modeling ...

Three existing modeling projects

MOSkitt, Topcased and Papyrus

are currently being merged into one building an Eclipse modeling platform

Visiting the zoo

The atlantic model zoo is currently somehow hard to find as many links to it are broken. It can be found here.

Model versioning ...

At least the following projects look into this topic:
modelcvs
AMOR #1
AMOR #2
anyway ... love is all you need!