Federico Tomassetti's blog

Today I achieved my master degree in Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino with 105 points out of 110.

Today I finished the first draft of my thesis titled “Model-driven development for multi-layer enterprise architectures” (well, it is written in Italian so actually the title is “Model-driven development per architetture software enterprise multi-livello”).

I also started play with EGit, the Eclips plugin for using Git.

And finally I re-started submitting German words in my Mnemosyne. I started with some words from the song 99 Luftballoons. The lyrics from the German version is so much better than the English version. And the last words… cool song.

In the last days I am thinking about mixing different languages. I am also in the process of reviewing a book about DSLs and reading I came across a technology that I really want to learn about but, as always, I am too busy to learn right now (you know the thesis and other stuff to do). So I decided to start using this blog to remind me things that I want to learn as soon as possible. If I fail it will remain a public dishonour for me

So I state it here:

Let’s see…

I just went through this tutorial to realize a simple Eclipse plugin.

I am now pretty proud of MyUselessPlugin.

It is so good to be passionate about what I am doing.

Or maybe I am just raving because I am too tired after all the work on my master’s thesis.

Who knows.

When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back
on my life and say, “Wow, that was an adventure,” not
“Wow, I sure felt safe.”

Tom Preston-Werner

I returned yesterday from Florence. I traveled there to attend the 2° Italian DemoCamp and have a speech titled model driven web development solutions. As soon as I started Windows 7 show a message complaining about the genuinity of itself. Please consider that I am using an RC version obtained directly from the Microsoft website… anyway everything was fine and I had the possibility to listen very interesting speechs.

Fausto Telia, from IBM illustrated some projects realized for important customers (the most of the Italian banks) using the Eclipse GUI and integrating in it external applications.

The guys from Rcp-Vision instead presented a lot of  different topics that I really would like to dabble into. In particular I really would like to study more about CDO (a model repository). The demo about the advanced use of XText for GUI generation was totally impressive.

My advice is to not miss the next DemoCamp.

In the case someone is interested these are the slides I used for my speech:

In this period I am working so much hard. I need to do that to finish my presentation for the DemoCamp and to realize an advanced draft of a Model driven solution to the company that I collaborate with for my thesis. I managed to reach the goals I settled until now and saved some time to spent in Tuscany. I suppose I need some relax (and not just to spend 14+ hours per day in front of my notebook). I suppose but… I am not so much convinced!

In the meantime I am thinking about the future after my thesis and my master degree.

What the future is planning to offer me? What I will be able to catch? So many opportunities…

And was cool to meet a couple of days ago an ex-colleague of mine now working at Microsoft. As I wrote in LinkedIn some years ago one of the most qualified developer I had never met. It is still true.

Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

An ex-collegua of mine is working at an important Italian software house, I was just watching on his website what they are working on:

Original post (in Italian), here.