Ledger is a Unix command line tool to do double-entry accounting using only text files. I personally use this tool to manage my personal finances, but since this blog is about Domain Specific Languages, in this post I focus on the domain-specific language used by this tool to model the general ledger used in accounting.
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I recently read the Xtext framework is seriously needing contributions or its future is at risk. The GitHub issue of the problem dates from March 2020, so the problem is old and I just learned about it. This is a serious problem with open source software that I’ve seen repeats and repeats.
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In his book, The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt presents a way to optimize a plant using his Theory of Constraints. This book lays out the concepts that later will inspire the agile methodologies, which is applying the Theory of Constraints to the development of software. The book The Phoenix Project relates the concepts explained in The Goal with IT and software development.
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In my last post post I introduced different alternatives to simplify the creation of RPA bots. In this post I dig deeper into one of those approaches: rule-based automation. Rule-based automations are based on triggers and actions, and are simple and linear. However, they can be user to support very interesting automations.
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Robotic Processing Automation (RPA) is a technique used by companies to automate tasks that normally would be completed by employees. These robots are usually called “bots”. There are several RPA technology providers, like Zapier, that enable small companies use this technology in a simple way with lots of apps that offer APIs to access their services.
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