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random notes from a forgotten workshop

I stumbled across some random notes I took in a workshop a while back. "W3C does not produce standards" - you just keep tellin' yourself that!Standards groups as a means for market research.Cult of...

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good gantt

I've promised to do some Gantt charts. By the end of the week, no less. Honest to blog, what am I becoming?

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starting with a trickle

After four weeks, we now finally have a source code repository, our adopted base framework has been checked in, and stuff from our project is just starting to trickle in. I know we haven't been sitting...

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STEPS

(Via LtU) Viewpoints Research have published the first year's status report on their previously discussed project.This is a rebadging of the Squeak-Croquet crowd, who do cute enough stuff with...

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STEP/Express

Over the last couple of weeks I've been getting to know STEP/Express. STEP is the language used to define IFC, which is the standard modelling language interchange format in the world I'm working at...

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timely change

I only started using Outlook (or Outrage, as Robin calls it) about 9 months ago, which was about 6 months after I started using Google Calendar. the lack of integration between the two was very...

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What am i reviewing?

One of the jobs that becomes more prominent upon the completion of PhD is the reviewing of papers. I probably reviewed a half dozen papers a year during my PhD, usually on behalf of one of the full...

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meta-pizza

Its creator dubbed it "Fractal Pizza", but for this blog, it can only be Meta-Pizza!

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posting hiatus

Its been a while since I've posted here, and its not the first time I've said that. I've been engineering away, trying to get the estimator feature-complete. I've had a couple of periods of high...

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microsoft oslo

I'm really impressed to see Microsoft's continuing push towards modelling as important. Their hiring of good people over the years - Jack, Wojtek, Stuart, Steve, etc - and recently of recognising the...

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refactoring EMF models

I'm a software engineer now (well, kind of), so I am qualified to espouse great wisdom on my experiences in software engineering.Last week we had cause for a couple of refactorings in our EMF...

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steal this blog post.

From the book of xkcd. Amen.(You really can steal my blog post, but you should say you did.)

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model interoperability in virtual design and construction

A couple of weeks ago, I presented a paper at the Knowledge Industry Survival Strategy (KISS) workshop (associated with the ASWEC conference) on the Gold Coast. The conference was about...

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Uncertainty

I am back at work this week, but in a strange position. My present 12-month contract with the university expires this Wednesday, and although my next (6-month) contract has been approved and budgeted...

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maybe the NBN will be slower than what we have now

I enjoy reading about the NBN (most recently here). What I do find frustrating, though, is that although everyone talks about high bandwidth, no-one seems to mention latency.For those who haven't...

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Article 9

My paper on bridging STEP and EMF got knocked back from MoDELS'10 this morning. Shame, I really wanted to go. Its been a long time between conferences now.

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trying the "commercial" software thing

A couple of friends and I have written an app for the Apple iPad, called Puzzlement. Its a jigsaw puzzle game, selected because we felt it was a good fit for the device's touch interface and form...

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Biden on Copyright

Last week (or a little longer ago), US vice president Biden claimed "Piracy is theft, clean and simple"In fact, not only is "piracy" not theft, plain and simple (as per the US supreme court in Dowling...

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SoSyM paper on interoperability in BIM

Last year, Robin and I presented a paper on interoperability of models in the architecture/engineering/construction space. Subsequent to that, with the aid of Bianca (a PhD student of Robin's), we...

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moving on

Some people who follow me on twitter and had some inside connections already knew this was happening, but it probably warrants a proper announcement for anyone else who's still subscribed here or...

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Graphical Programming

Last Thursday I attended the second (well, kind of second) meeting of the Brisbane chapter of the Computational Design Group, kindly hosted by ARUP. There were interesting talks by Steve Downing from...

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Transformation Tools Contest 2011

Tefkat (with me at the wheel) came in second (of 10) yesterday in the live challenge of the Transformation Tool Challenge workshop at the TOOLS Federated Conferences in Zurich. Congratulations go to...

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A Transformation Workbench for Building Information Models

Last week I presented a paper at the 4th International Conference on Model Transformation, part of the TOOLS Europe federated conferences, hosted this year by ETH Zurich. The abstract of the paper...

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Domain-Specific Model Transformation in Building Quantity Take-Off

Last week I presented a paper at the ACM/IEEE 14th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (or MODELS 2011 to its friends), held in Wellington, New Zealand. The...

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buildingSMART ITM/IUG meetings in Oslo

This week I am in Oslo attending buildingSMART meetings. buildingSMART is the organisation, or federation of regional chapters, which is responsible for the definition of open standards for the...

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