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Response Systems’ Presentation

As I write, Malcolm Tharnaby is concluding his presentation about the Response Systems‘ product QA Console from within Second Life.

Malcolm presented an overview of the productivity tool that can check your CA-Gen code and verify that it follows standards and, more importantly, perhaps, look for potential issues in your code.

He explained that after the product has QA Checked your Gen code, one of the aims of the product is to make the “thing” that has failed the QA check as clear as possible – even to the extent that the tool could automatically correct it for you – he gave an example of view reordering.

Thats a great productivity gain for developers and ultimately increases CA Gen‘s position as a seriously productive toolset.

There are a plethora of reporting options contained within the tool and all of them are configurable in many ways, enough for developers to actually pinpoint the source of the problem rather than a generalist statement.

There are many QA checks which come as built-in with the tool but they can also be site-specific and built yourself with the QA Console SDK.

The second part of the presentation showed us how to create a custom check for use with QA Console, and how its important to understand the underlying encyclopedia structure in order to do this effectively – Malcolm showed us that Response Systems’ knowledge of the encyclopedia is extensive.

I’d like to thank Malcolm for his time, and know that the attendees will want to thank him too.

I learnt a lot – not just about the tools being demoed, but the CSE and HE encyclopedia too – there’s knowledge in this presentation that’s valuable!

Remember that the video, audio and a copy of the slides will be posted here and on the EDGE an Response Systems’ sites in a few days time…. keep watching!

Grand Re-Opening Resources available

Here are the pictures from last night’s Grand Gen Village Re-Opening.

Download them as a zip file here

More resources over the next few days will be posted - slides, videos and podcasts to come from the presenters – APG, Jumar and Everware-CBDI.

Gathering 6 Resources available

Following May 21st’s explanation of the first two components of the ModelCVS framework, the resources – gallery pictures, podcast, video and slides are now available for download.

• Audio (downloaded times), or play it here:

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• Flash Video (downloaded times).
• Powerpoint Presentation Slides (downloaded times).
• eBook (downloaded times).

Gentalk Interview #2 with IET

The second Gentalk interview is with Darius Panahy of IET.

Listen to the interview in which Darius explains about the new IET product – VerifIEr, what it does and some exciting insights into how it can improve productivity across your Gen projects.

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Darius also explores the place that the Gen ecosystem plays in the development of the Gen tool and how important it is that the ecosystem continue to thrive and expand, to underpin the future of the toolset.

He also expounds on the future of the IET product portfolio, touching on what would be in the next release due in March 2008.

You should visit their site and explore what they can do for you !

Download the transcript as an eBook here (downloaded times).

The interview for listening to offline: (downloaded times).

My sincere thanks to Darius for his time.

Gentalk Interview #1 with ARIKAN Productivity Group

The first of many Gentalk interviews is with Mustafa Arikan of the ARIKAN Productvity Group.

Part 1

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Mustafa kindly gave his time to explain what APG is, what they do, and about their vision for Model Based Development and their tooling to vastly enhance Gen’s capabilities.

Listen and enjoy !!
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Download the interview here (Part 1) , (downloaded times),
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