Damus et Capimus

After a few years away, I am (finally) re-connecting with a community that I had been following still but not really participating in.  As of today, I am once again an Eclipse committer.

Say "Hello" to MDHT 1.1

The Model-Driven Health Tools project at openhealthtools.org has announced its much-anticipated 1.1 release. I'm very glad to have been able to contribute in various small ways to this release. I'm thrilled with all the very good work that the whole team has put into this; it's a significant step up in usability and function.

Sometimes when I'm typing on my iPad, I hit the "M" key instead of the space bar. Not a big deal, because usually the autocorrect fixes it for me, understanding that I wanted a space.

But, today, while writing an e-mail, I found myself staring at the word "woulda" just behind the cursor (yes, Mr. Vogt, behind). I certainly woulda neva typed that for myself!

Thanks, iPad, for trying to sling some slang into my work.

The Eclipse UML2 project has a new feature in the Juno M6 milestone that should help a certain category of applications to keep their UML models in good health.  These are UML-based modelling tools that use the EMF Validation Framework for model validation, often because they provide diagram editors based on GMF.  The Papyrus project is a good example of such application, and it happens to integrate this new feature.

The UML2 project implements the UML metamodel version 2.4.  I have always said that a model is not complete without the constraints that determine what is a well-formed instance.  Well, now we can have our diagrams and our constraints, too!

Well, here it's been how many years since my last post?