Application Generation - conferences

SPA Conference Coming Up Soon – Not to late to book!

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:41:00 -0400

See the posting on my new blog re: SPA Conference Coming Up Soon – Not to late to book!.

Presenting on “Spring Roo and Code Generation” at Code Generation 2010

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:57:00 -0400

See my new blog for the details!

Presenting on Agile and Productivity at cf.Objective() 2010

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:56:00 -0400

I'll be presenting two topics on agile and productivity at cf.Objective() this year. Check out my new blog for the details!

Code Generation 2010 - Call for Speakers Ends Soon

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:52:00 -0400

Just a reminder that the call for speakers for Code Generation 2010 ends on January 15th. It's one of my favorite conferences of the year and I'd thoroughly recommend it for anyone with an interest in Domain Specific Modeling or Code Generation. If you have an area of research or a real world case study, why not propose a session? Attendance is free for speakers and the attendees are always interesting, knowledgeable and engaging . . . Oh, also remember my blog is moving, so you should update your feed readers if you're still seeing this site.

Presenting on DSL Design at SPA2010

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:47:00 -0400

Again, a little late, but I'm happy to announce that I will be presenting at the Software Practices Advancement conference held by the British Computer Society for the third year in a row. I'll be presenting a workshop on "What makes a good Domain Specific Language?".

RIA Unleashed Deck

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:50:00 -0400

Here's a link to my new blog with my RIA Unleashed deck and some thoughts on RAD OO.

The Practical Product Lines Conference - a Quick Review

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:27:00 -0400

Please see my new blog for a quick review of the PPL 2009 conference. And don't forget to update your feed readers to point to http://appgen.pbell.com/?feed=rss.

Program Now Available for DSM Workshop at ooPSLA

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:56:00 -0400

I'm lucky enough to be on the program committee for the Domain Specific Modeling workshop at ooPSLA and I just wanted to publicize the fact that the program is now available. Unfortunately I won't be able to make ooPSLA this year, but given that next year is the 10th anniversary of the DSM workshop, I'll make sure to attend. If you can get to Orlando later this month I'd thorough recommend attending the conference. I presented a couple of papers at ooPSLA in 2007 in Montreal and it was a treat getting to meet so many of the top professionals in the world.

Why Not Present at the SPA Conference Next Year?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:40:00 -0400

After presenting at the Software Practices Advancement conference in London for the last couple of years, I'm now honored to have been added to the program review committee to review potential submissions for the conference next year. The submissions deadline is Monday October 26th and I'd strongly recommend proposing a session. It's an amazing conference where people from across the programming community working in different fields and using different language look at how they can improve the state of the art and it's certainly one of my favorite conferences of the year. Hopefully I'll see you there!

RIA Unleashed Discount Code

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:27:00 -0400

For any reason if you haven't signed up yet, use the discount code "PBELL" and get $10 off admission. It's going to be a great conference and I'll be presenting an updated RAD OO presentation showing off some of the latest LightBase framework and some generic LightDSL code that I'm going to release to make DSL work easier in ColdFusion. Why not sign up now?! Hopefully I'll see you in Boston on Friday November 13th . . .

Free One Day Conference Pass - Practical Product Lines 2009 - Amsterdam

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:13:00 -0400

If you are in or near Amsterdam and would like to attend the inaugural Practical Product Lines conference, drop me a line before end of business tomorrow and I should be able to get you a pass. It can be for either the 20th or the 21st, but why *wouldn't* you come on the Tuesday and catch my case study?! I'm really excited about the conference. For anyone involved in building multiple applications which have commonalities between them, software product lines can provide huge benefits in terms of efficiently reusing everything from specifications to workflows to contracts to tests and code. It's great to see a practitioner focused conference and the lineup of speakers suggests it's going to be a great experience!

Win a ticket to CF United from Railo!

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:49:00 -0400

Why stop at giving an awesome CFML engine away for free when we can also offer a free ticket to the biggest ColdFusion conference in the world?! Win a ticket to CF United, courtesy of Railo. All the details on the Railo blog.

RIA Adventure - A conference on a Cruise Ship

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:11:00 -0400

Joshua Cyr has just announced the next RIA Adventure conference/cruise. It'll be December 6th - 13th in the Western Caribbean. It's a conference on a cruise ship for people interested in the future of ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, AJAX and Mobile Development. From everything I've heard, the last one rocked, so you really should check it out!

Practical Product Lines Conference Coming Up

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:35:00 -0400

Are you interested in doing a better job or reusing elements between projects? If so you really should check out the Practical Product Lines conference in Amsterdam this fall. Run by the team behind the Code Generation conferences, it's one of the few practitioner conferences focused on software product lines. The call for speakers closes on Friday, so why not put together a proposal?

Code Generation 2009 - Excellent as Always

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:30:00 -0400

I've been attending the annual Code Generation conference every year since the inaugural event in 2007. Held in Cambridge, England, I really believe it is the best practitioner conference for learning about best practices in code generation, domain specific languages and domain specific modeling. This year was excellent as always. From the keynotes (Markus Voelter tag teaming with Steve Kelly to provide a really great overview/introduction to best practices in model driven development) through the hands on sessions (unfortunately I missed Eelco Vissers lab on Stratego, but the MetaEdit+ and XText hands on were excellent) to the experience reports and tutorials (including a great presentation on RGen by Martin Thiede and one on template specialization by Kathleen Dollard), it really provided a great overview of best practices in the industry. I'd especially like to thank Steve Cook, Markus Voelter, JP Tolvanen, Jos Warmer and (as a last minute substitution) Laurie Tratt who all appeared on my "Future of DSM" panel at the end of the conference. I'd also like to thank everyone who chose to run a BoF session. Thanks Mark, Andy and Mags for all the hard work, and I look forward to seeing everyone again next year! I'd thoroughly recommend anyone interested in code generation to put Code Generation 2010 on their calendar for next June.