…is a session being held at EDGEucate 2009 in Plano, Texas, USA between 28th and 30th October. Even though I can’t be there in person, it will be fascinating to understand what CA Gen can do here.
In the post “Cloud Computing” I wondered if, and indeed, how, CA Gen could be used to deploy into a cloud infrastructure, since CA Gen’s major benefit is “Write Once, Deploy Many”, this could be “Write Once, Deploy Many (oh- and into a cloud as well)” - this may well give me the answer.
Leveraging all of what’s been written in CA Gen over the years into a cloud would seal it as “probably the best development tool in the world”. I’m not sure what other development tools could take one piece of code and use it one a mainframe batch environment, through client/server, through Java, through to a cloud deployment.
My supposition is that it could be deployed into a cloud using an extention of the component-based-development features that it already has, simply wrapping up the component in a custom framework – we shall wait and see.
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Abend IT has launched!
What is Abend IT ? – A Dutch Service provider based in Utrecht, specialising in CA Gen (but other technologies too).
Who is Abend IT ? – Willem Slob and Martijn van den Burg
How to contact them ? http://www.abendit.com
They’ve got a really good “spin” for their site – some simulated Gen code spelling out their name, address and contact details – wish I’d thought of that !!
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I’ve collected together some bits of gentalk.biz which are associated with so-called “social media” or “interactive media” and put them together on this new “Interactive Media Page“. There’s a new URL for it : http://interactive.gentalk.biz
There, you can easily follow gentalk on Twitter, join Second Life, and get easy RSS feeds of both the blog and the forum, and more…..
More will be added soon, just to make it easy for you to get the gentalk.biz information quickly and easily.
If anyone would like a specific feed, drop me a comment and with any luck it will be done for you.
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ARIKAN Productivity Group (APG) is the latest official partner of CA – their ModelCVS technology has been stamped as CA Smart.
APG specializes in CA Gen. Their technologies contribute to the success of CA Gen in software modernization,state-of-the-art tool integration with Eclipse Modeling Framework and additional generations like UML2 diagrams.
Read the full testemonial here at CA’s partners site.
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With the announcement here and here that CA are supporting Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), one wonders how easy (if at all) it would be to deploy a CA Gen application into such an infrastructure.
I’ll do some reading and find out, since the whole concept of cloud computing is of interest.
It’s good to see that such infrastructures are being supported by large vendors, and CA in particular.
Will CA support Microsoft’s Azure platform, I wonder ???
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Register for EDGEucate 2009 here and EDGE EMEA 2009 here
Hurry as there are discounts for early registration !
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The latest edition of the IET newsletter “SpotlIET” is avaiable for download, as is the new edition of the Jumar Solutions SUMMIT newsletter.
IET focus on the release of GuardIEn 7.8 – specifically, the Release/Environment Preparaton wizard, together with more exciting new features contained within, while Jumar look at the new Worldwide Vendor Services Agreement with CA, and how it will positively affect CA’s ability to service customers around the world at the drop of a hat with Jumar’s extensive knowledge and resources.
These are exciting times within the Gen community, since both companies will be participating in the EDGE conferences, AND the Gen r8 Beta programme.
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I recently tweeted about the DOS PATH variable in Gen – it seems (at least from the Gen workstation API standpoint) that a PATH with Windows long-style filenames in it causes the API call to open a local model to fail.
What I have found is this:
If the Gen runtime is installed in
C:\ALLFusion-Gen\Gen\Runtime
and you set up the PATH variable to be:
PATH=C:\ALLFusion-Gen\Gen\Runtime;%PATH%
then all is fine.
If, however you set the path to be
PATH=C:\ALLFUS~1\GEN\RUNTIME;%PATH%
then the open model API call fails – has anyone else found this or is there something flawed in my investigations ?
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Jumar Solutions is the first Global Vendor Services partner to sign with CA - extending the reach of CA using partners globally – read the press release here.
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Gen R8 is open for public beta testing – for more information as to how you can participate in the program – go here.
Make it what we need it to be !
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