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Functional Programming for Java: Getting Started with Vavr
/4 Comments/in Software Development /by Federico TomassettiJava is an old language and there are many new kids on the block who are challenging it on its own terrain (the JVM). However when Java 8 arrived it brought a couple of interesting features. Those interesting features enabled the possibility of writing new amazing frameworks like the Spark web framework or Vavr, previously […]
The First Year of Strumenta
/in Consulting /by Federico TomassettiI co-founded Strumenta on the 4th of December 2017. Before that I have been working as an independent consultant specialized in Language Engineering for a few years. So it is natural to stop and look at the way we ran across this year and where we want to go next year and the years to […]
Developing Business Applications using Jetbrains MPS: interview with Daniel Stieger
/in Jetbrains MPS /by Federico TomassettiWhy this interview? This time I sat down with Daniel Stieger, who is the co-founder of a well known consulting company in the Language Engineering field. We met at at Jetbrains MPS meeting in Munich last year and our companies (ours Strumenta and his Modellwerkstatt) offer similar services. So for us it was a great opportunity […]
Developing Plugins for Jetbrains Products: an Interview with Joachim Ansorg
/in Software Engineering /by Federico TomassettiIf you read this blog regularly you will know that I really believe in the power of tools to support people in their work. I even called my consulting company Strumenta, which means “tools” in Latin. I am also a big supporter of Jetbrains: I think they make great products that really improve the life […]
Convert PL/SQL code to Java
/in Code processing /by Federico TomassettiI have a lot of conversations with persons interested in language engineering. Many of them are with readers of our newsletter, others are with clients of my consulting business. In the last few weeks, several of these conversations were about converting PL/SQL code to Java. I am interested in this topic because I believe that […]
Bromium DSL: a DSL to Test UI Actions
/in Domain specific languages /by Federico TomassettiI recently heard about Bromium, a Domain Specific Language (DSL) to describe user actions on a UI. Given I love everything regarding DSLs I contacted his author, Hristo Vrigazov, and chatted with him about: the DSL he has built, building editors using Xtext, working on an open-source project his visions on language engineering Enjoy! […]
Designing a DSL for accounting: use a DSL to describe taxes, pension contributions, and general financial calculations
/in Domain specific languages /by Federico TomassettiLet’s see how we can design a DSL. Many readers appreciated the tutorials we wrote on implementing Domain Specific Languages but kept asking us resources on the designing of these languages. On this blog we have discussed already how to write parsers, interpreters, and compilers but we did not write much on what comes before, […]
Telosys: a Code Generation Tool by Laurent Guerin
/in Model driven development /by Federico TomassettiIn this article we are going to examine Telosys, a code generation tool. We will do that by discussing with its author, Laurent Guerin. This will give us the possibility to learn also about his views on code generation and what its users have accomplished by using Telosys. Why are code generation tools relevant? Code […]
So Much Data, So Many Formats: a Conversion Service
/in Miscellany, Parsing /by Gabriele TomassettiData is a core resource for many activities. One important challenge for handling data is storing the data in the right way. We need to choose a format that makes easy solving the problem at hand. When multiple problems are being solved using the same data, that could mean that the same data has to […]
Three Rules that Helped Me Becoming a Better Professional
/in Consulting /by Federico TomassettiNormally in this blog I write about technical stuff: mostly tutorials and ideas on software design. Sometimes however I share what is going on with my professional life: I wrote about what I learned working at TripAdvisor, and about my first year as an independent consultant, before I co-founded Strumenta. Over the years I had […]