Daniel’s Model-based Engineering Insights

UML Best Practice: One Operation => One Sequence Diagram

Geert did a very nice post explaining his Ideas on Sequence Diagrams inside Classes! As I like Sequence Diagrams a lot – I like this post. It shows how it can be done with Enterprise Architect. Two important things are explained: Instances vs. Classes Methods vs....

LieberLieber now a Sparx Systems VAR

In recognition of the work we are doing around Enterprise Architect we have been announced an official Value Added Reseller (VAR) by Sparx Systems Australia. This announcements is part of our strategy to continue our work around LieberLieber AMUSE and bespoke add-in...

CaliberRM – Enterprise Architect – Free Webinar

CaliberRM – Enterprise Architect Integration Add-In On the 16th of June 2011 Dunstan Thomas will be hosting another free webinar. The subject for this webinar will be the CaliberRM / Enterprise Architect Integration Add-In designed by Dunstan Thomas. Introduction...

Surface 2.0 with 360° Videos from GPIXS360

Together with our cooperation partner GPXIS360 we enhanced our POI Explorer so that 360° Video Content is now available on Surface 2.0. Due to the great amount of tourism-content from GPIXS360 we can offer solutions for Hotels, Resorts and tourist offices. GPIXS360...

Bridging Embedded Gap Presentation

For the Electronics Fair Exhibition in the Hong Kong I prepared a presentation that explains how the toolkit we developed helps to manage the growing complexity in the embedded world. The solution is based on Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, AMUSE and Willert...

Bridging Embedded Gap

Development of Real-Time Systems with Enterprise Architect and AMUSE. Couple weeks ago we presented our solution for embedded development at the embedded world Conference 2011 for the first time . Today I’m at the Electronics Fair Exhibition in the Hong Kong...

Click-once and COM

Click-once was not designed for registering com-components. These things are part of the work Windows Installer is meant for. To use ActiveX in click-once applications too, remember these words: "Reg-Free COM". Here's a short summary of what to do in a .NET project:...

Microsoft’s 234-inch touchscreen

  Wir sind ja gerade auf den Microsoft Big>Days 2011 in Graz –  wo es vor allem auf unserem Stand - auch coole Dinge zu sehen gibt. Leider noch nicht den Surface V2 (Samsung SUR-40), der noch nicht öffentlich gezeigt wird. Aber zumindest unseren...

WP7 authentication via asp.net applications

During a recent consulting, I helped a client to resolve his authentication issues with his existing Web application and Windows Phone application. Using the existing MembershipProvider If you have already an existing Web application and you want to extend it...

Ping-Pong demonstrates inter state machines communication

If you are looking for inter state-machines communication using AMUSE, following example should help. It’s a kind of “Hello World” for multiple machines, simplest possible example Two state machines fires triggers to each other: Ping fires ping trigger and receives...

Interactive UML using Windows Forms without Visual Studio

If you model and simulate behaviors using Enterprise Architect and AMUSE some Mock UIs based on Windows Forms can improve your model significantly. How you can do that in a simple way? In that case you typically need to: 1. setup an Visual Studio Project and take care...

EA+AMUSE vs. Rhapsody

I would like to share the brief feature-comparison between Enterprise Architect enhanced by AMUSE and Rhapsody. The comparison is based on the public available information: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/products/rhapsody/sysarchitect/ and...

sysinternals Process Monitor

Useful tool for tracking file- and/or registry-access of applications: Process Monitor. Former known as FileMon NT or RegMon NT, sysinternals combined these 2 tools into 1. It's also running on Windows 7 x64. Download here: Link

.net Decompiler

Unfortunately the best .net decompiler will not be free anymore. The version 7 of .NET Reflector will not be free of charge anymore. For more details see red-gates announcement. The good news is that others took this as opportunity. The next version of Jetbrains...

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect – Customisation

Actually we are doing quite a lot of Projects enhancing the capabilities of Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems. Finally we managed to represent that on our webpage. Currently there is not a lot of content – but hey it’s a start. you can have bespoke Add-Ins and...