News from the Factory Floor

January 2010

Happy New Year! We're starting the year with a special 2 month period, dedicated entirely to all of our project.
Our lightning talk proposal for FOSDEM 2010 was accepted. We'll be introducing UmlCanvas on Sunday at 16:00. We hope to meet you there.
Trying to improve the experience of UmlCanvas on all browsers and platforms, we've launched Test UmlCanvas, a site where you can help us to gather input to make all diagrams look the same in all conditions. It only takes a minute, so please submit your results today.
We've released the official site for our webUML initiative. Read our rationale and find out what you can do to realise a more social modelling experience.

We've release a major update to the UmlCanvas website. It's now running a customised Mediawiki, which allows us to add content more easily. Next up is a revamp of the Hosted UmlCanvas site and integrate both sites to create a far better experience.

We attended Devoxx09. We had the opportunity to talk to a few people and discuss Hosted UmlCanvas. New ideas to further expand the possibilities of UmlCanvas were explorer and the general idea to submit a proposal for next year's conferences seems very likely.

Based on UmlCanvas, we are currently slowly rolling out a new online tool, called Hosted UmlCanvas, enabling everyone to create, share and include UML diagrams in HTML based content.

We'll be at CodeGeneration Conference 2009 in Cambridge. We will present a lightning talk or host a BoF. So maybe we run into each other.
A transcript of our presentation at CodeGeneration Conference 2009 is now online on our public wiki.
Abstract Domain Language has been updated to 0.2

Canvas2D has been updated to 0.2
With the first release of UmlCanvas we have finalized the first set of development targets. Time to start iterating.
What better moment to update the look of our sites, starting with our main site right here...
... and a more marketing-style site for UmlCanvas ;-)

We are pleased to announce the first public release of our first foundation project: Abstract Domain Language.

At our downloads page we now provide the latest public releases of our projects.
We also host a public test site where we deploy internal releases of our projects. You might catch a glimpse of what is to come over there ...

Slowly things are taking shape. Not much there yet, but the boilerplate content is slowly being added to our public wiki.
Starting the new year, we've set up a public access to the public git repositories of TheSoftwareFactory. Check back while we add the first batch of projects real soon now.

TheSoftwareFactory starts its first public project: TheModelFactory, a wiki about modeling software, focusing on ready to use models and patterns.