DDD7, OSLO Microsoft’s Vision for the future of Modelling

On Saturday I was pleased to have been chosen to present on Microsoft “Oslo” at Developer Developer Developer 7. The event was a runaway success and there will be more.

I would like to thank everybody who attended my talk and especially those who were kind enough to provide feedback ( good and bad ). The only downside was my Quadrant demo did not work too well as it was running especially slow and I did not demonstrate half of what I had intended but it turned out that my laptop had decided to run in extra slow power saving mode!!!

As promised I will be maintaining a canonical list of Oslo resources , papers , links and videos to help everybody move over to Oslo and I have promised to get some videos up within the next few weeks to a month on some of the key areas ( including the demo’s ).

The good feedback was mainly from people who are working in similar fields to DSL’s etc and could see the potential of the DSL side. from the other side it seemed to be mainly why was Oslo not Object Orientated, I had been quite careful in preparing the talk to try to cover this in some detail and so I will be posting soon a “Why Oslo is Relational” post.

I must thank Alan Smith from bloggersguides for a couple of slides and concepts that helped me shape how I presented Oslo (including but not limited to the 3 Dubs) and the ever enigmatic Doug Purdy, whom I have been fortunate to see present on Oslo several times over the last few months, for some good solid inspiration.

And finally I would like to thank Marjan Kalantar who provided the giveaways for the talk, which were gratefully received by the audience.

last of all the important links

The video I streamed was from www.modelsremixed.com

I would highly recommend a visit to the site of the ever wonderful Alan Smith www.bloggersguides.net

The Oslo Developers Centre msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/default.aspx

all of the links and more will be in the following post

thanks again to everybody who attended and if you have questions please feel free to ask

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