Archive for April, 2008

New whitepaper! The Benefits of Model Driven Development

This new whitepaper is written by Michael Azoff – Senior Research Analyst with Butler Group.

This paper discusses the evolution of application development, the benefits of model-driven approaches and how CA Gen has helped numerous customers successfully transition to new platforms, web-based architectures and SOA. Butler Group provides insight as to how CA Gen fits perfectly into the new world of loosely coupled composite applications, increasing business agility while lowering the costs of application ownership.

You can download it here:

…or look at the Butler Group page on this report.

Major Gen Events on the cards !

Firstly:

With reference to this post , the main software which runs gentalk.biz has been upgraded, following a fairly major set of revamps to the peripheral software infrastructure of the site. There was some small downtime, but hopefully nothing that disrupted users of the site. If there was, then I apologise, but we are now back up and running after the upgrade.

There will be some smaller upgrades in the coming weeks, but nothing that will result in any downtime.

I’d like to remind all readers that if you have NOT yet signed up for the EDGE usergroup – please do – go to www.edgeusergroup.org and you’ll be just in time for the next EDGE newsletter.

CA World 2008 is on the horizon, which, after all is the highlight of the CA Calendar – registrations open imminently (April 15th). For more information go to www.caworld.com.

CA World is a fantastic event, after which I was inspired to create what became gentalk.biz - It’s a great way you network with the Gen world in a great location, and learn about what’s happening in the Gen world first hand – from the CA guys theselves! 

Gathering 5 – Legacy Modernisation

Legacy Modernisation…..…..has become a buzzword of late. In this Gathering, we will have a guest speaker (Jumar Solutions) who will be speaking about their take on legacy modernisation with respect to CA Gen. This Gathering will be a great opportunity to hear another eco-system vendor speak.At last month’s Gathering, Estefan Euler put forward ideas on how CA Gen could become as well-known as Java, Ruby and other development frameworks.Go to http://gathering.gentalk.biz to get details of how to sign up and how to participate in this discussion and make your voice heard ! Don’t forget to sign up to Second Life and join “The Gen Gathering” group in advance of the event to get your free Gentalk T-shirt to wear to the Gathering, where you’ll also receive your free event-specific T-shirt for your Second Life Persona to wear.The Gathering takes place in 2nd Life on 23rd April 2008 at 9pm BST (UK Time).Be sure to use to check that you have the time correct, as the UK is now on BST (British Summer Time) !!!! EDIT: To save time: here’s a list of the major cities’ (sorry if I left your city out !) timezone equivalents for 9pm BST 23 April 2008. PLEASE usetimeanddate.com to check as inicated above – but it’s just a quick “ready-reckoner”:


London (U.K. - England) Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 21:00:00
Dallas (USA. - Texas) Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 15:00:00
New York (USA. - New York) Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 16:00:00
Amsterdam (Netherlands) Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 22:00:00
Vienna (Austria) Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 22:00:00
New Delhi (India - Delhi) Thursday, 24 April 2008, 01:30:00
Sydney (Australia - NSW) Thursday, 24 April 2008, 06:00:00