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This blog has been quiet for ahile.Here is a little meditation on the use of metamodels in architecture frameworks. It names names and quotes quotes.If you are a fan of DoDAF, MoDAF or NATO AF, you probably won't like it. Comments appreciated.On metamodels (pdf)

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British Library Direct sells for £16.00 copyright fee + service charge (from £8.10) + VAT access to a paper of mine, that you can have for free! Assuming you are interested in "Using aspects for architectural description", here's the link: Using aspects ...

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Back in 1999, I wrote a paper for the First IFIP Working Conference on Software Architecture, entitled "Views and viewpoints in software systems architecture". If you are interested in that sort of thing, you can find it here(PDF).It had a nice history of the idea of "views" in software architecture, surveyed precursors to that notion from software engineering, and examined the ideas in (

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If you've been under a rock for the last few months, perhaps you don't know about Ada Lovelace Day, 24 March (see http://findingada.com/ ). On that day 1678 (at last count) pledged to blog about a woman who is a role model in technology.Today is the day and this is my blog contribution. For the past two months I've been making lists, trying to pick from the women I know of, have worked with and

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Here's a worthy cause for which to dust off this idle blog."I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same."— Suw Charman-AndersonAh, Ada. My first long-term technical love affair (well, there was that thing with Lisp, but that is a story for another time). Ada is such a cool language — fine-grained,

Rhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11869582156654770141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-741071770497544637.post-60411710460698664422007-07-25T16:21:00.000-05:002007-07-26T11:54:47.880-05:00

In between consulting gigs and standards meetings, I've gotten interested in social networking, web 2.0, and other recent buzz. I started using del.icio.us to share my bookmarks, and Twitter, and got busy with my LinkedIn account (which had been idling around 8 contacts for a long time).The biggest buzz lately is around Facebook. Some kind of tipping point has been reached on this very recently.

Rhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11869582156654770141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-741071770497544637.post-10222113264007912122007-04-18T15:57:00.000-05:002008-12-13T02:50:42.025-05:00

Do you like Nine Inch Nails? Do you like dub?Well, then you probably won't like my dub remix of NIN's "Survivalism" with Mad Professor's "Vikings Dub".Trent Reznor was nice enough to release the Survivalism tracks in GarageBand. Mad Professor posted Vikings Dub to the Reason site back in the day. All I did was combine them ...Now available on The Official NIN Remixes site:Survivalism (Vikings Dub

Rhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11869582156654770141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-741071770497544637.post-77779089061085449152007-04-07T11:25:00.000-05:002008-12-13T02:50:42.286-05:00

First, it snowed 12+ inches on (Maundy | Holy | Great) Thursday. So it was a good day to stay indoors, fight a cold or something like it, work on websites that needed working on, and create a large pot of black bean soup for supper (hoping it is not the Last).Second, as recently communicated to me, there is increased recent interest in research on Peeps.Third, of course, it is time for the Pop

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Finding myself with free time between consulting gigs, I've been thinking about aspects. Aspects are a very active research topic in computer science and software engineering for addressing crosscutting concerns. Here's a non-computing analogy: imagine you are writing an outline about something that interests you. You've got 5 or 6 top-level categories, and you've refined each of them to several

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It is hard to be dJ universalStyle. I joined twitter.com, and of course I wanted to be dj universalStyle, or djUniversalStyle or something like that. But there's a 15 character limit on "screen names". I considered some alternatives, googling variants like dj Universal, dj UniverStyle, dj Architect, ... Who knew this namespace was so densely populated!I finally settled on dJdU.

Rhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11869582156654770141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-741071770497544637.post-40303506382739756932007-02-25T16:18:00.000-05:002007-02-25T16:46:53.676-05:00

I decided I ought to create this blog. When you get this old, you start remembering things you should (maybe) write down and my kids complain I never tell them stories about myself. A blog should be easier to update, than trying to tell stories on my web page.Why universalStyle? Because I colonized that identifier a couple years ago as dj universalStyle [∂j/∂U for short] for making music. The

Rhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11869582156654770141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-741071770497544637.post-11636945162223865412006-11-08T22:03:00.000-05:002007-03-21T22:11:53.301-05:00

(This isn't really new. This is an item that was on my web page, and I decided to move to my new blog...)Between 2001 and 2005, I had the pleasure of working with folks at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on software engineering for the Solar-B X-Ray Telescope. I say "pleasure" because they are engineers and astrophysicists who really know their stuff, and are a delight to work

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(Another old post moved off my web page to this blog.)I just returned from the first ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 WG 42 meeting in Seoul. WG 42 is the ISO working group managing the joint ISO, IEEE revision of IEEE Std 1471, one of my long-term projects.The meeting was quite thought-provoking with a lot of level-setting of the participants; familiar with the current standard to varying extents, and

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