Archive for December, 2010

2010 was the year of r8 !

I suppose the highlight of the year MUST be the release of CA Gen r8 (and its feature pack beta test).

The release of any new version of CA Gen is always met with a slew of new products and updates of existing products from the eco systems. CA Gen r8 was no exception.

Gen Studio, EJB web services, extra statements in Action Diagrams….

…and more and more and more….

you can search gentalk.biz for more r8-related posts here :

http://gentalk.biz/blog/?s=r8

2010 marked a major milestone in CA Gen’s evolution – lets hope 2011 holds more !

Merry Christmas to you all !

Thanks for reading Gentalk.biz in 2010.

Have a great Christmas and a fantastic 2011!

We can look forward to Feature Pack 1, maybe Feature Pack 2 and a host of new products, updates and new functionality from the guys and gals at CA and the CA Gen ecosystem partners around the world….

2010 looking back

I’m NOT going to do one of those “review of the year” posts this year, but I will be highlighting specific posts of particular interest to how CA Gen has moved forward in 2010.

First in the line to be highlighted is this one : “So now I’m home!” which was a look back at CA World 2010 and the tooling announcements by IET, APG and other partners. The fact that APG has invested in tooling to bring people TO CA Gen from other technologies is encouraging shows that there’s a market for that out there and it IS being successfully done.

More next time….

Christmas presents

What would I like for Christmas ?

A brand new Jaguar (can’t afford that)

A second-hand Jaguar (can’t afford that either)….

….think….

I’ll settle for no call-outs over the Christmas period due to system failures. OK – It’s one of these Christmas presents that you know you are gonna have, but are happy when you get it !

Gen systems are among the most stable systems I have ever worked with and their stability never ceases to amaze me – which is why on Christmas morning my mobile phone will be off and no call-outs need to be taken!

Christmas – sooooooo predictable !

Evil under the sun – but many moons ago!

Discovering a bug this week in a piece of CA Gen code that I’d written (many) years ago made me wish I had tools like “VerifIEr” or “Model Analyser” years ago.

The behaviour was that a local view I’d assumed was keeping its value wasn’t and I worked out why very early on, but it still cuased a latent problem.

Stupidly, I’d clicked “Initialise on every entry” on a local view which was wrapped up in a CA Gen batch program.

If I’d had VerifIEr or Model Analyser all those years ago, we could have found that out and fixed it through a proper automated code review.

What’s the evil ? Simply not having enough tools to review and find issues with your code at the time you write it OR not enough testing.

Put simply – tools like Model Analyser and VerifIEr save SOoooooooo much time !