To the finish line

Actually worked some during both Christmas and Boxing Day, helping out a friend of mine I had to “re-learn” how to setup an Apache-server, use MySQL with PHP and how to make it all run smoothly together with Netbeans. After getting a friendly tip pointing towards XAMPP it all became a lot easier and some nifty “modeling” on a piece of paper later I took off coding. I’m actually a bit surprised with what I achieved in only two days… which is good since I don’t have a surplus of hours stacked away, but I promised my help and that’s that.

But today it’s Monday again and normal work-day. Been digging through a lot of reading material with regards to SysML and MARTE and the combination of the two without getting a real wow-experience… maybe it is experience, maybe it is cynicism… I don’t know. Well I need to stay positive anyhow, to give it a proper chance.

Serious Android

Got a nice e-mail from one of my good friends back in Gothenburg today, he had some interesting and serious suggestions for Android apps (that he’s planning to realize on iPhone). We’ll see where this ends.

Next week it’s finally time for IBC. Been iterating the presentation for a while now and starting to go around in circles a bit, the final pieces will fall into place while talking I’m sure.

The last couple of days I’ve been getting acquainted with Q as well. Maybe not the most pleasant experience but in the end it gets the job done. Or at least it might. The interesting part though is to see if we can auto-generate necessary input straight from a SysML model.

Additionally I had a brief e-mail discussion with a colleague in Gothenburg about xtUML, code generation and model verification. Good to see that xtUML is getting some attention around the block; I definitely think there are some goodies to collect there. Hopefully I’ll have a chance to continue that dialogue this week since he had some follow-up questions on CM.

Well, time to open Eclipse.