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Microsoft (through Wilson Pais) invited me to talk in the first Architect Forum of the year in Santiago de Chile.

I also used this opportunity to visit a friend of mine who lives there, Hugo Cortés. I meet him for first time in March 2004 when he come to Montevideo -as a member of Un Techo Para Chile- and helped us to create Un Techo Para Uruguay, a non-governmental organization that help houseless people in my country. I'm outside the organization now (because you can't do everything at the same time), but I really feel as a member of it... technically, I'm one of the founders ;)

Back to the Architect Forum, Alejandro Pacheco made a discussion about the available technologies for the presentation layer. After that, Martín Cabrera introduced Domain-Specific Languages, and showed a mini-example. Then I presented Himalia and finally, Carlos Carminati and Luis Molfino presented their company and what are they doing.

In the picture, from left to right, you can see to Martín Cabrera (Microsoft), Carlos Carminati (d2B), Luis Molfino (d2B), Alejandro Pacheco (Microsoft) and me. 

My presentation was specially discussed with the people, so I think they enjoyed it ;) I already know that the Himalia proposal is disrupting, and it's great when people keep thinking about these ideas.

This photo was taken by Luis Molfino, as you can see he's an artist :)

I want to thank you to Martín Cabrera and all the Microsoft Chile team. Surely we will meet again in the near future...

Labels: DSL Tools, Himalia, Talk, Travel, WPF

# posted by leovernazza : 3/06/2007 12:55:00 AM  0 comments links to this post

The beta was released on December 12, two month ago. Now, I want to to share some news with you:

• . On December 19 I was invited to talk in the Microsoft Architect Forum, in Montevideo.
• . Steve Cook contacted me. He and his team are writing a book about DSL Tools and they want to include Himalia as a real-world application using their new toy. We'll be glad to appear there.
• . I was also invited to talk in the Microsoft Architect Forum in Santiago de Chile (February 27 28).
• . We started to work in smooth design-time integration between Himalia and DeKlarit (the first alfa-prototype is working right now).
• . The guys from TangibleArchitect contacted us too; we will work with them in the near future in order to integrate both products.
• d2B decided to be the first company to develop controls for our platform. We are just starting to work together...
• . In the meanwhile, we had near 200 downloads... and several other "in process" things I can't still talk about.
• But, the community cannot grow without documentation and interaction. So, I am pleased to announce the new Himalia Community Forum and the first documentation package. We know we are still far away from a "good documentation", but we are in the road now, and the forum should help in the meanwhile.

Labels: DSL Tools, Himalia, Talk

# posted by leovernazza : 2/08/2007 01:22:00 PM  0 comments links to this post

Last December 19 I was invited to talk about Himalia in the Microsoft Architect Forum in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was the last one of the year, so it was very nice for all of us (you should read: there was sandwiches, and cider :P).

The last and second presentation was made by the d2B guys. They are working with WPF creating really cool applications and controls. We talked after the forum, and they decided to be the first company to integrate into our control platform. So, they will provide this kind of controls for Himalia soon, and you will be able to "guild" very exciting user interface in minutes.

I am sure that everyone will enjoy it!!!

Labels: Controls, Himalia, Talk

# posted by leovernazza : 1/31/2007 07:43:00 PM  0 comments links to this post