Sunday, December 19, 2010

7.0 is waiting in the wings.

Wow.

What a few months we have had in the Plex and 2E world since I last wrote a proper update.

The major piece of news from my perspective is the publication of the candidate features for the 7.0 release of Plex.  Yes, you heard me right!!  After talking up 6.5 in previous posts of mine and at the 2009 conference in Florida, CA have decided to skip to 7.0. 

Usually, an x.0 release number (increment) signifies a major release with some significant features.  Well it looks like 7.0 isn't going to disappoint us.  I personally can't wait to get involved and do some beta on .NET Client (WPF and XBAP) and the WCF Proxy for Cloud deployment.

For the full recorded presentation.  Visit this link.

Interesting times ahead.

Thanks for reading.
Lee.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Retro look back part II

Thanks to John Rhodes for the image of an old Obsydian diskette from the 1.0.3 release.  We are now at 6.1 and we have WCF, EJB, Java and .NET generation all being added since.  I really does show that MDD (Model Driven Development) can stand the test of time....

Personally, I see a marked 'upswell' in the desirability of code generation tools or at the least the concept of not writing all the CRUD stuff over and over again.

Time will tell.

Thanks for reading.
Lee.

p.s. Apologies for not keeping the blog up to date.  I have been working fulltime on a green field Plex project here in NZ.  I will try and summarise my findings in a future post.