Installing JBoss Drools

http://www.installationwiki.org/Set_Up_for_JBoss_Drools

ModelBus

Looks interesting
http://www.modelbus.org/modelbus/index.php/tooladaptersmenu

Eclipse Client Platform

The Eclipse client platform looks really inteesting. Here is a tutorial how to install and use it.

Type system with Xtext

I just saw the project regarding types
http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/xtext-typesystem/

Eclipse and Modeling

Some pointers for me to remember:
- Topcased
- Graphiti BPMN Example

Cool technology

Graphiti seems to be cool ...
    http://www.eclipse.org/graphiti/download.php

Business Architecture Links

Here are some links related to business architecture:

• http://www.infosys.com/offerings/IT-services/architecture-services/white-papers/Documents/enterprise-business-architecture.pdf
• http://www.enterprisebusinessarchitecture.com/documents/EBA_The_Formal_Link.pdf

Copy table from word to excel ...

I just had to convert a word table (nicely formatted with bullet list, etc.) into an excel table.

The native approach with Copy and Paste does not work as each bullet in the list results in an own cell in excel.

Approach:

1) Select the table in word
2) Replace '^p' with ';'
3) Replace '^l' with ';'
4) Format bullet list to no bullet list
5) Replace ';;' with ';' ...

Copy - Paste

Learning to program excel with c#

After some time I figured out how to set ranges with row and column numbers.


            range = xlWorkSheet.get_Range(xlWorkSheet.Cells[r1, c1], xlWorkSheet.Cells[r2, c2]);

where r1, r2, c1, c2 are all integers

and xlWorkSheet is the worksheet under work

Developing Sparx EA AddIn with Visual Studio 2010

After switching from VS 2008 to VS 2010 I had the problem that the debugger didn't break in the newly compiled addin. After trying around I came to the following solution:
- compile the add in
- start EA
- attach the debugger to EA
This picks a compatible version of the debugger (the default is the latest debugger).

And another one on EA and OAW

Here is a link to a blog from Nirval with a few further details.

OAW and Enterprise Architect

components4oaw provides basic integration between Enterprise Architect from Sprax and Eclipse based OpenArchitectureWare.

Software Visualiation

Just cam accross this site which is all about the topic of software visualization.

Fuzzy seach

We are building an ontology ... it will be big ... I'm looking for software which can find similar words.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/fuzzysearch.aspx
http://www.catalysoft.com/articles/MatchingSimilarStrings.html
http://alski.net/post/2007/09/16/0a-Porter-Stemmer-2-C-implementation0a-0a-.aspx

Other tools ...

A few other ones

• Gephi
• Graph3DGL

Java based stuff

Here is another list of network analysis and visualization tools, all in Java.

Visualization of data

I just came across this side which also contains some material for pajek

HP DesignJet 500 - Avoid running out of memory

Some time ago I did buy a large scal printer on Ebay. The only problem so far was that actually very large prints ended with an out of memory error on the printer. Now I found this nice little option under Service - Truble Shoot Software problems which allows to move the image processing to the PC (Send as Bitmap). Now everything works just great ...

NetWiki - Data Formats

Nice reference can be found here ...

GraphViz for UML

A nice article is here ... also good as an example for GraphViz.

Architecture Analysis (Step 1)

A small add-in for Sparx Enterprise Architect allows me to export taxonomies in a form GraphViz can read. I'm also interested to use Pajek for architectural analysis.

Various links on Model and Graph Analysis

JGraLab Related:

• graph based traceability 
• Enterprise Architect to JGraLab

ReDSeeDS (Requirement Driven Software Development System)


Mola (Model transformation Language)