Archive for August, 2009

Support CA Gen!

I’ve been thinking about ways to actually SHOW support for CA Gen, both on the internet and in the real world lately :

If you have a Twitter account, you could get a Twibbon – a small overlay on your Twitter avatar

You could purchase an “I Luv Gen” button badge to wear, just like the one on Gentalk.biz logo !

Spread the word !

CA Gen in the Clouds…

…is a session being held at EDGEucate 2009 in Plano, Texas, USA between 28th and 30th October. Even though I can’t be there in person, it will be fascinating to understand what CA Gen can do here.

In the post “Cloud Computing” I wondered if, and indeed, how, CA Gen could be used to deploy into a cloud infrastructure, since CA Gen’s major benefit is “Write Once, Deploy Many”, this could be “Write Once, Deploy Many (oh- and into a cloud as well)” -  this may well give me the answer.

Leveraging all of what’s been written in CA Gen over the years into a cloud would seal it as “probably the best development tool in the world”. I’m not sure what other development tools could take one piece of code and use it one a mainframe batch environment, through client/server, through Java, through to a cloud deployment.

My supposition is that it could be deployed into a cloud using an extention of the component-based-development features that it already has, simply wrapping up the component in a custom framework – we shall wait and see.

Launch of Abend IT

Abend IT has launched!

What is Abend IT ? – A Dutch Service provider based in Utrecht, specialising in CA Gen (but other technologies too).

Who is Abend IT ? – Willem Slob and Martijn van den Burg

How to contact them ? http://www.abendit.com

They’ve got a really good “spin” for their site – some simulated Gen code spelling out their name, address and contact details – wish I’d thought of that !!

Interactive gentalk.biz

I’ve collected together some bits of gentalk.biz which are associated with so-called “social media” or “interactive media”  and put them together on this new “Interactive Media Page“. There’s a new URL for it : http://interactive.gentalk.biz

There, you can easily follow gentalk on Twitter, join Second Life, and get easy RSS feeds of both the blog and the forum, and more…..

More will be added soon, just to make it easy for you to get the gentalk.biz information quickly and easily.

If anyone would like a specific feed, drop me a comment and with any luck it will be done for you.

APG gets the seal of approval from CA

ARIKAN Productivity Group (APG) is the latest official partner of CA – their ModelCVS technology has been stamped as CA Smart.

APG specializes in CA Gen. Their technologies contribute to the success of CA Gen in software modernization,state-of-the-art tool integration with Eclipse Modeling Framework and additional generations like UML2 diagrams.
Read the full testemonial here at CA’s partners site.