From 16th to 18th of June 2009, Code Generation 2009 conference was held in Cambridge, UK. It was the first time that I have been to that conference and it was a great experience for me. The event was very well organized. I want to say thank you to Mark Dalgarno and his team who have managed to organize a beautiful event. Also I want to say thank you to all the speakers and sponsors. Whitout them the event wouldn’t have been possible. Almost all of the sessions that I attended were really interesting and informative. The weather was fine and the food was lovely, in contrast to a common prejudice. And I met a lot of interesting people, all sharing the same interest in model-driven software development. I definitely plan to visit Code Generation 2010 next year.
Here is a link to a video on youtube that nicely summarizes the event.
A lot of attention was given to domain specific modelling, especially to the question of whether or when textual, graphical, tabular or form-based modelling is best suited for the modelling of software systems. The number of choices and quality of modelling tools seems to become bigger theese days. That’s good news since it makes it easier to find a modelling tool that is best suited to solve a given problem.
On the last conference day, I was speaking about Legacy Application Modernization – Experiences in a real-world MDA/MDSD Project. The people in the audience were asking quite some questions that I was happy to answer thoroughly. One listener had approached me after my talk and we had a fruitful discussion on modelling and code generation.
Last but not least, I took the chance to collect new ideas through the course of the conference to improve our own tools for model-driven software development. Those ideas are already part of our release planning process.
See you next year in Cambridge. Code Generation 2010 surely has something for you, too.
