There are going to be two presentations about ADM. One starting from T4 basics and other demonstrating the architectural level automation.

Register your tracks in time (even if they weren’t the ADM presentations) so that the presentation hall/room sizes can be properly chosen by the organizators.

See you there!

Kalle

The first glimpse of what’s forming up is described in Abstraction Ecosystem Overview under the “This is all open source” section.

What I’m particularly happy about is, that everything is based on well-established open-source technologies and tools, such as Git, GnuPG. Even the database for metadata search is fully open-source and multiplatform command-line usable BaseX XML based database.

The infrastructure is actually only series of command/shell scripts executed in proper sequence, which makes it transparent and clear to understand. All of it open source of course as well.

The polishing up requires likely few weeks, but I wanted to share this much as we’re slowly raising interest on potentially co-operating parties with forming up the infrastructure for ecosystem.

Cheers,

Kalle

Eclipse’s XML Editing Tools (from Web Toolkit)

Eclipse XML Tools

… and normal external tool support

Eclipse External Tools

bring it already to very usable level. I already concept-tested it on Windows with MonoDevelop’s tools and everything worked fine. I’ll make proper section for Eclipse, once I ensure the compatibility and proper workflow on Linux and Mac OS X.

Btw this also applies to Qt Creator

Happy New Year 2012,

Kalle

However being able to pull it off in practice many (not necessarily all though) of them lack the closed-system model + generator approach; with no real-world requirements outside the version controlled folder (mainstream tool usage on matured template-technology does not really apply).

I also revisited our dawn of new era statement adding the new paradigm in logical continuity of raising the level of abstraction through programming languages. When this is now achieved in logically pure manner, there is nowhere to go, as there is no “beyond” in this path.

Merry Christmas to all readers,

Kalle

There is still usability differences, but mostly on local and shared abstractions; using modular abstractions (that are demonstrated also in Demo Videos in section Documentation and Status Tracking) the experience on the automation generation side is equal (no surprise there, as the modular abstractions actually require separate build-chain).

Only difference that still matters is that MonoDevelop’s XML editor is not intellisense-aware on attributes nor annotations in form of tooltips. This is likely easy to counter to use some external XML editor for better experience.

Of course modifying modular abstractions still makes Visual Studio shine because of T4 intellisense, but the schema file change is easy to reflect to MonoDevelop with simple command line tool support.

I’ll probably add MonoDevelop-specific videos to reach Mac and Linux developers on the ground more native to them.

Cheers,

Kalle

As those watching us for longer might recall, we’ve also pursued the simplification to the logical extreme (down to the level where anyone could start making applications from their mobile phones). We got somewhat “burned” in our efforts when we pursued on Google’s AppInventor integration, but Google discontinued providing it (although happily MIT took over).

We were re-establishing the connection with MIT as well as with Intel’s AppUp Creator, but as our goal was especially target youngsters or even kids, sharing the common interest lead me to join our efforts with Coding For Kids.

As I’ve already approached the open source community for the open source way of doing, I hope we can finish this and together introduce the world of creating applications and learning to program to kids of various ages.

I already apologize beforehand, as a side note (as it becomes apparent sooner or later) this blog is not entirely kid-safe content. I have a four year old son myself and there is one particular post I wouldn’t want him to read until he understands that not all the things are so pretty in the adult world of social interaction.

This blog is a live-history demonstrating how “disruptive innovation” has built up and while I now understand that some certain post could have been left unsaid, it was metally needed at the time being. Trying to convince your own peers and facing ill-argumented debate of nonsense and downplay made me publish that one. The post after all “only” referates the atmosphere from the “Matrix Reloaded” kind of a revolution, so all-in-all I thought of it being within socially acceptable boundaries. I do understand that the referred artist Marilyn Manson is also an issue, but the quote was there due to “Matrix Reloaded” atmosphere of revolution.

I could have phrased it differently. I could have referred to Dolphins in the “Hitchhikers Guide To Galaxy”; “Your industry is being automated away, and you didn’t bother to listen” – kind of way, but unfortunately I didn’t.

I did think of editing away the post, but the historical facts of the blog were more important. I hope this doesn’t become too big of a problem; after all this blog is not meant to address the “Coding for Kids”, but moreover simply provide the means to achieve it.

All this being said, let’s change some world!

Kalle

Next I’m going to focus on streamlining the initialization of the abstraction-structure alongside for making abstraction from scratch. For those already using git can test the current one (some minor issues exist though) already. It’s published in github.com/abstractiondev/absInitializer.

Usable with two (ok three) simple commands (that require unzip.exe in path as well):

1. git clone git://github.com/abstractiondev/absInitializer.git
2. cd absInitializer
3. initialize.cmd

Cheers,

Kalle

The videos and demonstration/downloads are going to be updated accordingly as the materials for the Getting Started are added.

There still is plenty of room to research; how the automation and humans best interact in the software development processes. Information architecture is still required in its full role, however its interaction in the whole process can be considerably streamlined.

Marilyn Manson’s “This is the New Shit” says it well from the perspective of programmer-coder outside world. People want working software, and I think with all the messy-buggy-shit out there, the overall appreciation for the programmer’s manual labor is not that high. Btw it’s also in “Matrix Reloaded”, so while Marilyn Manson might not be familiar, you might still recognize the song.

Are you **** ready For the new shit?

Stand up and admit, tomorrow’s never coming.

This is the new shit. Stand up and admit.

Do we get it? NO!

Do we want it? YEAH!

While every methodology can be challenged, it sounds a bit oxymoron to challenge the very principal theory that the manually written program is justifying its own existing in business-paid-world (to solve a problem in a cost-effective fashion), don’t you think?

Many of the other professions have been blessed to get rid of the dull machine-doable labor; I think it’s about a time to automate our pain points away.

Yours,

Kalle

I also added the explanation how this methodology replaces human work as-is and hence does not require any additional proof-of-validity compared to current software development. It simply replaces human written code by automated code, that can be verified as-is. The automation is also open-source and available in project-level with full control over its functionality.

I also added neutral assesment report as a reference that we got as a result from Finnish Innovation Funds – Sitra (www.sitra.fi) as we convinced them from our approach.

The Demo Videos page.

The References page.

Cheers,

Kalle