Monthly Archive for August, 2008

MMath Thesis: Feature Model Mining

Abstract
Software systems have grown larger and more complex in recent years. Generative software development strives to automate software development from a systems family by generating implementations using domain-specific languages. In current practice, specifying domain-specific languages is a manual task requiring expert analysis of multiple information sources. Furthermore, the concepts and relations represented in a language [...]

MMath Thesis Presentation: Feature Model Mining

I will be holding a seminar describing my Master’s thesis work. It is open to all, so please attend if you’re interested. Feature Model Mining. Wednesday, August 6 at 1:30pm in EIT 3145.
Update: Here are the slides that I’ve used for my presentation.

Adobe Acrobat.com

It seems that Adobe doesn’t want to be left out of the Web 2.0 office application fad with it’s Acrobat.com. It provides document writing, desktop sharing, PDF creation, and a neat online PDF reader. All of this was made possible by employing the formerly Macromedia’s Flash technology. I was initially excited about the online Acrobat [...]

Phishing Terms of Agreement?

I’ve been recieving spam via Live Messenger and have mostly ignored them to-date. Feeling adventurous today, I decided to click and view one of these sites and noticed that they had a Terms of Use agreement. It’s actually quite a humourous read if you’re interested, so take a look below.

DHS Can Detain Your Laptop for No Reason

The United States’ Department of Homeland Security now has the power to detain a traveler’s laptop indefinitely at the border, without any cause for suspicion. This is frightening, especially since all of my work and personal life is stored inside this machine. Not to mention that I use Linux, which might set off a cyber-terrorist [...]