Computing Reality

In my last post , I described the current state of Eclipse Gerrit adoption. If you haven't read that post, you might be as surprised as I was to find out how low it is: LESS THAN 15% OF ALL ECL...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2013/01/adopting-gerrit.html

This blog just passed a milestone, with 100,000 page views. Probably not a lot compared to most technology blogs, but it's gratifying to know that people have found the blog worthwhile enough to ...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2013/01/on-computing-reality.html

How much has Gerrit changed software development? Well, consider that a couple of years ago most of us had never heard of Gerrit, and now it seems that you can’t contribute a line of code witho...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2013/01/analyzing-gerrit-java-knime-and-numbers.html

I'm happy to announce that the Virgo Tooling M4 release is available. If you just want to find out more about that, skip ahead to the section below... But I realized that it's been a long time s...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2012/05/virgo-tooling-m4.html

Last week I said that I had some really exciting news to share, and this is it: As of today, I am part of the Tasktop team. I've long been an admirer of Tasktop, for a number of reasons... Firs...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2012/01/joining-tasktop-team.html

When Butterflyzer was launched a year ago it was introduced with the following words: > "Butterflyzer is in Alpha now. Before we release more polished > versions, we need to know�...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2012/01/butterflyzer-beta.html

I've been thinking a lot about how to marry the visual appeal and density of representation you get with Word Clouds such as the Wordle and Eclipse Zest Cloudio  with the relational information...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/12/forecast-spring-clouds-and-sopa.html

Yesterday I went off on a rant about Crossing the Chasm . Within the technology world, that's sort of like mentioning that you don't care for the Bible all that much at a Rick Perry fundraiser. (...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/11/crossing-er-chasm.html

One of the goals that I'm really trying to drive Butterflyzer toward is finding a middle ground between the level of detail that hard-core social network analysts get into, and the incredibly ove...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/10/arab-spring-cloudio-and-butterflyzer.html

Hi all. I wanted to let folks know about a new project proposal I'm considering, and ask for your feedback and support. I'm really hoping you'll consider participating signing on as an interested...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/09/eclipse-bfdt-project-proposal.html

As a quick follow-up to my post yesterday, here's an overview on how to integrate Mylyn with your own GMF editors. We'll be maintaining this on the Mylyn for Modeling wiki page but I wanted to ...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/09/mylyn-your-gmf-models-love.html

It's been a while since I've posted anything here. Been busy doing real work -- you know, the kind that other people pay you to do. Specifically, I'm delighted to be working with the team at Task...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/09/mylyn-modeling-love.html

Every once an a while, a new way of thinking comes along that is so powerful, so unique, so practical -- just so damn cool, really -- that it catches on naturally with no real effort on the part ...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/06/indolent-programming-manifesto.html

When I first thought about turning Butterflyzer into a product, I really had no idea whether people would grok it or not. It seemed to me that if I couldn't at least get that hard-core group of "...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/06/butterflyzer-alpha-5.html

We've just released the latest Alpha for Butterflyzer. If you're not sure what Butterflyzer is, check out this article and this one . You can download the free alpha here . Most of the changes i...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/05/butterflyzer-alpha-4.html

Last month I gave an extended talk at EclipseCon 2011 about the Eclipse Agent Modeling Platform and the whole idea of Modeling Reality in general. Why would we want to do such a thing? What does ...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-model-reality-science-eclipse-big.html

I just read Andrew Bayer's really nice post . I tried to respond there, but naturally I got too verbose. Someone needs to come up with a good solution to this problem of blog posts and comments a...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/05/eclipse-community-and-victory-over.html

Wow. Am I the only one who is hugely ambivalent about the Eclipse Hudson announcement? If William Safire were still with us he would point out here that Ambivalence does not mean "unsure", "unde...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/05/hudson-jenkins-and-eclipse.html

Well.. glad you asked. I think. In my last post I shared what motivated me to create Butterflyzer. In this post I wanted to talk about why you might want to give it a closer look. What does this...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/05/meet-butterflyzer-part-ii-what-does-it.html

It's been a while since I posted and I've got quite a backlog of things I'd like to write about.. EclipseCon 2011, Agent Modeling Platform improvements, my mixed feelings about Big Data and AI, a...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/04/meet-butterflyzer-part-i-is-this-any.html

Now that I've stolen your attention with the oldest marketing trick in the world, you might as well check out my EclipseCon talk Wednesday at 2:50 in Stevens Creek: "Get Real? What is Eclipse AMP...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/03/sex-lies-and-eclipse.html

The resource model is one of those aspects of the Eclipse Modeling Framework that is extremely powerful yet can seem way too complicated for us mere mortals to muck with. "But what if I break som...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2011/01/supporting-multiple-resource-types-with.html

Many of us who've spent time traipsing through the Eclipse wilderness are probably familiar with this story... > Tis a beautiful, sunlit 'morn and you're wandering around the world >�...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2010/12/emf-and-rap-and-virgo-oh-my.html

In my post earlier this week I sighed about the incompatibilities between GPL and EPL, took the FSF to task for their (in my eyes anyway) disingenuous posture and suggested a way to hack ourselv...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2010/11/is-gpl-damaging-to-your-ecosystems.html

Disclaimer: Hey I'm not a lawyer, ok? Get your own damn legal advice. In fact, if anything I say makes sense to you, then I wish you'd explain it to me, because it sure doesn't make any sense to ...

http://milesparker.blogspot.com/2010/11/can-dynamic-duo-free-software-from-gpl.html