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A framework for cross platform DSL development
31 March 08 06:42 PM | andersnoras | 6 Comments   
One of the challenges I have experienced when giving talks or blogging about domain specific languages is that developers are a little reluctant to writing code in languages they are unfamiliar with. This holds true even if the DSL in question is an external Read More...
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Next Week's Speaking Schedule
22 February 08 04:24 AM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
Fredrik Kalseth posted a notice about his talk for the Norwegian .NET User Group’s (NNUG) Vestfold’s chapter, so I thought I’d follow in his footsteps to inform the world about my speaking engagements next week. On Tuesday February 26th Read More...
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A Jerk in the Land of a Hundred Languages
03 February 08 07:00 AM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
There is an article in this week’s Economist referring to a paper by Dr. Mark Pagel et al published in the latest edition of Science on (spoken) languages evolving in punctuational bursts. The key point in Dr. Pagel’s research is that evolutionary Read More...
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DSL Tools: A Complex Solution for a Simple Problem
24 July 07 09:43 PM | andersnoras | 5 Comments   
Last night I was unable to sleep, so I started reading Domain Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools and I was immediately reminded of my rant about software factories . Just like with the software factories provided by the Patterns and Practices Read More...
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's a DSL!
15 July 07 06:11 AM | andersnoras | 7 Comments   
My latest posts on DSLs caused a bit of a stir around the blogosphere. Some of of the more constructive debates have been on wether a fluent interface is just a fluent interface or if it can be labeled as a DSL. I have a consultant's answer to this; it Read More...
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Behind the scenes of the planning DSL
09 July 07 10:54 PM | andersnoras | 29 Comments   
Last week I blogged about an embedded DSL for creating different calendar components like events and to do-tasks . For this post I'll let you in on some of the "secrets" of embedded DSL development in C#. Before we get started, let me refresh your memory Read More...
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I'm coming down with a serious case of the DSLs!
04 July 07 08:28 PM | andersnoras | 10 Comments   
Back in May chromatic published a tongue-in-cheek checklist to determine whether your code is a DSL or an API . Regular readers know that I've done quite a bit of fooling around with various embedded DSLs in Java and I assure you that getting serious Read More...
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