Something that I’d like to highlight is how the availability of Archi as a free tool has allowed for a greater degree of sharing and discussion of EA in our UK Higher Education sector, and, indeed in the wider community, both commercial and non-commercial. Without Archi would there have been the Coventry Modelling Bash, the […]
Development becomes slower the more successful the product is…
…like treacle it becomes less agile. Every decision, every movement is heavily considered and pondered, questioned over and over in case it’s the wrong decision. Each new feature or change can have serious consequences for the increasing number of users of the application. Like Hamlet, equivocating. In the early days it was all so faster, […]
End of a long coding sprint
Friday afternoon. I just wrapped up editing and writing the Help Documentation for the new features in Archi 1.7. It’s been a long haul since I started this coding sprint in February. This last week I added User Properties to Archi, a feature that should be useful in itself but which will probably bring with […]
The Future of Cross-Platform Apps on the Desktop
My colleague in CETIS, Madam Cooper, recently published an informal “Horizon Scan” document. You can read about it here. There’s an interesting section on possible future trends in “Cross-platform Applications”. This got me ranting thinking again about desktop apps vs. web apps. I agree somewhat with the comments about Java on the desktop as Rich […]
Archi 1.7 is coming…
Archi 1.6 was released on Feb 6th. Since then I’ve been coding off and on for fixes and features for the next version, 1.7. I’d planned to release this at the start of April but I’ve had plenty of other stuff to do as well – coming up to speed with Git, helping out some […]
Sketch Idea
Here’s the thinking behind the (unfinished) implementation of the Sketch View, inspired by Chapter 6 of the book, “Enterprise Architecture at Work”: The aim is to just get your stuff captured without caring about the formal constraints of the ArchiMate language. Quick. Capture. Discuss. Iterate. Change. Inspire. Converse.
Developer Forum
I set up a Developer Forum on Google Groups. We need to get more contributors if we are to sustain Archi beyond 2011. We need to be thinking about funding, code contributions, and possibly getting it adopted by the Eclipse Foundation. Can you help? (Also, the main Archi Website has also been updated with new […]
Goodbye to Carbon
We discovered a bug in the Mac Carbon version of Archi on Monday – when I was having a day off in Bath shopping, very distracting. Drag and drop in the Models Tree crashes the app with a NPE (Null Pointer Exception). Eclipse Bug filed here and a workaround added to the code here but […]
Code on GitHub
I pushed the code to GitHub. We have been using SourceForge for our code repository for some time now, but after the last fiasco I wanted to have it on-line somewhere else. Besides, GitHub looks much more friendly and I like the OctoCat.
Archi presented at JISC Conference
Willidata (the clever half of the show) and I did a quick 20 minute presentation of Archi at the JISC Conference in Liverpool. More details here. It was a bit rushed but we got the main thrust of it over to the heaving crowd. As we were near an Apple store I couldn’t resist playing […]