Factories @ Macaw - the DotNed presentation of april 26, 2007
On april 26, 2007 I gave a presentation at the Macaw headquarters in Schiphol-Rijk, The Netherlands on what we are doing with Software Factories at Macaw.
I promised the audience to publish some links to tools and information mentioned in the presentation. I can't upload the presentation itself because it was a real "look into the kitchen of..." session with information that we can't give away (yet). I promise to blog more on this in the future however.
Some initial posts on what we are working on:
- Blog post by Vincent Hoogendoorn: Realizing the Software Factories Vision for a Microsoft Systems Integrator
- Blog post by Maarten Sikkema: De race naar Software Factories (in Dutch)
Tools we are using to realize our software factory vision:
- Visual studio SDK 4.0 - Contains the DSL tools and everything to create visual studio extensions
- Guidance Automation Extensions - Runtime needed to run GAT guidance packages
- Guidance Automation Toolkit - Visual studio extension for development of guidance packages
- Clarius Software Factory Toolkit - Additional tooling for developing GAT packages
- PowerShell - The glue language we use extensively in our Solutions Factory. I have written thousands of lines of code in PowerShell, it rocks!
I hope you all had an informative session and got some "food for thought" ob what you could do within your organization. If you would like to leave a comment on what your impression of the presentation, please do so as a comment to this blog post, or send me a direct e-mail at serge@macaw.nl!