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Interoperability of web-based modeling tools

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : January 20, 2022
Categories : Tooling
Tags : Web ,Desktop

While doing some research on web-based tool, I recently found this excellent article by the team at EclipseSource. I like the way they present the differences between web and desktop-based tools focusing on the following axes: Installability Portability Performance and responsiveness Usability Cost I recently started studying these web-based tools to implement some personal projects and I found that there is another dimension worth mentioning: interoperability.

The toy example as a specification device

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : January 19, 2022
Categories : Tooling
Tags : Requirements ,Methodology

Agile methodologies are pervasive in today’s development culture. The ideas are used not only in software development but in other domains as far from software as sales. However, when we develop model-based tools, we are usually faced with the challenge to develop a DSL, or several in small iterations. This creates several challenges, but today I am going to be focusing on the specification of the requirements.

From Eclipse to VS Code: First impressions

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : January 17, 2022
Categories : Tooling
Tags : Vscode ,Eclipse

I have been developing using the Eclipse IDE basically since college. In those days, being able to use a complex IDE was seen as the mark of the professional developer. Freshmen coded using a simple editor and the compiler directly from the console, geeks used an editor like Vim and some build tool to automate the build process, but to code “like a professional”, you used the mighty IDE.

What do we mean by software for engineers?

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : January 14, 2022
Categories : Tooling
Tags : Architecture

In this post I’m presenting a very broad overview of what I consider to be tooling for engineers, which is the main subject of this blog. Software for engineers has many names, some people call them modelers, others, IDE, and others just “tools”. In this blog post we will stick with the generic label “software for engineers”.

The rise of the super editor

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : January 12, 2022
Categories : Tooling
Tags : Vscode

When I first learned to program in the late 90s, it was with JavaScript. I was 16 years old, and I did not understand the underpinnings of programming and the tooling that is behind. I remember searching Yahoo and Altavista for explanations on what is a compiler and how does it work.