archi devlog

I was reading this post on Quora, “Why did Borland fail” again today and re-thinking the whole Borland Business. The post rightly asserts that Borland failed because they tried to appeal to the “Enterprise” market instead of sticking with the successful market that they were catering to at the time (late 1990s, early 2000s). The […]

As I outlined in the Archi Roadmap, one of the things I’m working on is the Archi Command Line Interface (ACLI). This has been requested by users for some time, it’s just that I never got around to figuring out a good way to implement it. I’ve now got the bare bones of it coded. […]

Since The Cartel threw their toys out of the pram, and started turning the screws and threatening The Organ Grinder, I notice that TOG are not allowed to mention the dreaded name “Archi” on Twitter and suchlike. So, to help them out, I had the great idea of dropping the name “Archi” and just using […]

With two lines of code I think I’ve improved Archi model load times by about 4000%. Some users had been complaining of very long load times of several minutes but I’d always assumed that the slow load speed was due to EMF taking its sweet time to load a monolithic XML file, and had resigned […]

Er…the last entry in this dev log was 6 years ago. OK, a lot happened in that time. 😉 I’ll update with some new stuff…

Added a basic implementation of the Business Model Canvas to Archi. Not sure if this is a good idea or what. An experiment.

Yesterday the cygnets hatched in the nest by the boating pond in the village. I was there to welcome some of them to this world: An auspicious sign, so Archi 1.7 final was released today. There wasn’t much feedback regarding bugs and any other issues on the forum for the beta versions released over the […]

I gave Archi on Linux some love this week. This involved de-commissioning my VM installation of Ubuntu 10.10 under VMWare Fusion on my MacBook and instead installing VirtualBox and Ubuntu Natty Narwhal (11.04) on my Windows machine (which works quite nicely). This makes it easier to access and flip between Linux and my main Windows […]

This post reminded me why I didn’t use GMF back in the early days. Quote: Lots of generated code you do not really know and by far not understand In case of non-standard behaviour you need to adapt that code Re-generation of partly modified generated coding is difficult and will most of the time again […]

There’s a new proposal for an Eclipse BPMN 2.0 Modeller here and here. “The BPMN 2.0 Modeler provides a graphical modeling tool which allows creation and editing of BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) diagrams. The tool is built on Eclipse Graphiti and uses the BPMN 2.0 EMF meta model currently being developed within the Eclipse […]