Folk, This may be too abstruse for some, but in building the ActiveFacts API, I came across a problem I'm not sure can occur. An objectified (nested) fact type...
Folk, (posted to some individuals as well as the information_modeling list) Here is the latest updated README file from my ActiveFacts project. It presents the...
... Terry answered this one. On page 138 of his book, there's an example of an external UC that applies to both internal and external roles of an objectified ...
... Hi, By "prefeered identifier" you mean Primary Reference Constraint (PRC)? By illegal, does it mean that it could lead to ambigous, or inconsistant...
... Yes. They have too many names... I used PRM with Terry and he had to guess what I meant. ... He said "illegal in ORM2", which I think means it's illogical...
Well, I bit the bullet and implemented a Ruby DSL for ORM2 models today. Well, about half of one anyhow... The example is below, which is the administration...
... Scott, To some extent I share your strong feelings at the style of Dan's presentation, but he has some valid points and I don't think the manner of your...
... Your message is a response to my message, yet instead of responding to anything I said, you responded only to what Dan said. Was that just an oversight?...
... You'll have to excuse me if I get upset when people libel me. ... I do, considering his presentation quotes me and uses my copyrighted material very, very...
... You read it very differently that I did. When he says "Scott says.... the implication is....", and I read it as "Scott says.... and so people do....". He's...
Just thought I'd start a new thread seeing as the topics were different. Comments below. - Scott ... Heath <clifford.heath@...> wrote: <snip> ... modeling...
... Perhaps. Then again, you might want to read the archives of the dm-discuss@yahoogroups.com list. That community has a history of misrepresenting agile, ...
Well, I'm out of the loop on this discussion thread. apparently there was some DAMA meating and this all came up. Well, in response to the responders comments....
... Sorry folk, I decided late in composing my response that I should crosspost it ere to the information_modeling list, and I omitted the URL that kicked this...
... They need sufficient insight and experience to know they're allowing it, and to evaluate the costs accurately. Nice story about your conversion to Agile,...
re: " Firstly then, Agile does have a tendency to creating a greater technical debt in regard to data models, by encouraging people to expect that they can...
... If your refactorings on objects reflect changes in the underlying information model, then you're probably talking about the same sorts of impacts. The...
... All the code, good or bad, deals with the information. If you change the shape a bit, you have to change all the code that deals with that bit, and you...
... Yes, but it's a higher level of abstraction. It's actually just relational modeling, with the constraint that all relationships are elementary (no "Person...
... This sort of misunderstanding is one of the fundamental challenges that the agile community faces with the more traditional aspects of the IT world. They...
... In the late 80s and early 90s the user centered design community did research into the understandability of ER models. Although people, in particular the...
... I thought it was pretty self-evident. The user interfaces are sketched to provide the required context for a user to accomplish a given task, and to allow...
Doing the right amount of up front work precludes doing the costliest of refactoring. Doing enough quality modeling of the domain up front usually makes it ...
... I fully believe that. But I'm not talking about the business stake-holders understanding them, but the modellers. Business stake-holders get the...
Hello Jaron, I haven't had a chance to read through the latest series (I'm not even sure if it's a single thread); and a good deal of it involves subject...
i would like to propose a distinction in dealing with data issues along the following lines: * New projects * Projects with existing XXGBs of data Also,...
I'd really like to see the tool take off on the Eclipse platform. I've talked to Matt about what we need to do to get a parallel project going that is not...
... I highly suspect that a significant factor in the failure of CASE tools to be adopted widely is that they catered to the needs of modellers and not to the...
I am not sure about whether I care if its a Microsoft solution or not. My only concern is just like there are many free UML tools why isnt there a single free...
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