language parallax

Just got word that my poster “Structured Co-Evolution of Models and Web Application Platforms” was accepted to the poster session for OOPSLA ‘07 in Montreal.

I’ll also be participating as an “observer” at the doctoral symposium.

I’ll put the short abstract up soon.

Parts of it are intentionally a little vague. I’m hoping to be able to provide many more details by the time the conference starts.

But as far as identifying the functionality and scope of the project, I’m pretty happy with it. It captures a lot about what I’ve found frustrating with web application development… and why I think solutions like Ruby on Rails are only instances of a more general concept. Not to mention the fact that code generation should play with with IDE’s, versioning systems, and support round-tripping.