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Episode 151: Intentional Software with Shane Clifford

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Episode 151: Intentional Software with Shane Clifford

This episode is a discussion with Shane Clifford, who is a development manager at Intentional Software. We discuss the idea behind intentional programming, key concepts of the technology as well as example uses and a little bit of history.

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Episode 141: Second Life and Mono with Jim Purbrick

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Episode 141: Second Life and Mono with Jim Purbrick

In the first part of this episode we discuss a couple of basics about SecondLife (scaling, partitioning, etc). The second part specifically looks at how the dev team tackled a number of interesting problems in the context of executing their own LSL scripting language on top of Mono.

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Episode 126: Jetbrains MPS with Konstantin Solomatov

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Episode 126: Jetbrains MPS with Konstantin Solomatov

In this episode we take a brief look at Jetbrains’ Meta Programming System, a language workbench for creating external DSLs or for extending existing languages (such as Java). In a brief telephone discussion, Konstantin Solomatov explains what the system does and how it works. The system has recently been released into public beta and will be made available under then Apache 2.0 Open Source license.

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Episode 123: Microsoft OSLO with Don Box and Doug Purdy

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Episode 123: Microsoft OSLO with Don Box and Doug Purdy

In this episode we discuss Microsoft’s OSLO platform with Doug Purdy and Don Box. We briefly discuss what OSLO is in general and then look at the various components of OSLO. We also look at how OSLO fits in with the general Microsoft strategy and how it compares to other DSL/Model-driven approaches. We then look at language modularization and composition and discuss the similarities with XML and Smalltalk. Finally, we discuss possible integrations of OSLO with other MD* approaches and technologies.

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Episode 122: Interview Janos Sztipanovits

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Episode 122: Interview Janos Sztipanovits

This is a discussion with Janos Sztipanovits about Cyber Physical Systems and how DSLs are used to approach some of the challenges in that domain. Specifically, in the second part we talk about formalizing DSL semantics.

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