On September 27 I will give a public Humane assessment primer course in Bern (more specifically at Schutzenmattstr 14).
The one-day course covers the essence of the humane assessment method through real-life war stories:
- why software assessment is economically important,
- why adopting it explicitly in-house is the only viable solution,
- how to integrate it in the development process,
- how to embed it in the organization, and
- how to support it via a new breed of tools.
The course is visual and interactive. Here is an excerpt of the visual support:
The course is dedicated to both managers and engineers. Why both? Because the problem is both economical and technical. Managers have to understand the technical challenges that consume the budget silently. And engineers have to understand the economics involved in assessment.
To register, please contact me directly.
We are happy to announce version 4.8 of the Moose Suite: http://moosetechnology.org/download/4.8
Description
This was supposed to be a minor release, but in the end it turned out to be a major release with significant improvements.
The key highlights are:
- Based on Pharo 2.0.
- All built-in visualizations use Roassal.
- Roassal received a significant performance boost and new smart graph layouts like TreeMapLayout or ForceBasedLayout.
- Roassal uses Athens for nice looking vectorial graphics.
- New charting engine based on Roassal: Graph-ET.
- Glamour changed to enable dynamic scripts, while still remaining backward compatible.
- Glamour received a RubricTextPresentation for using the new Rubric text morph.
- Glamour, Roassal, EyeSee, Graph-ET editors are more robust when dealing with errors in scripts.- New GTDebugger with dedicated workflows for Announcements, PetitParser and Glamour itself.
- Extended GTInspector for several object types.
- Usable version of GTMetaceller for handling Metacello configurations.
- FAMIX was strengthen to handle functions better in various programming languages.
- New free type fonts and simpler whitespace-loving theme.
- Lower memory footprint for large models.
- Faster MSE import.
A list of issues addressed in this release can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/list?can=1&q=status=Fixed%20milestone=4.8
Installation
The Moose Suite 4.8 comes for each platform as a separate bundle:
The Moose Suite 4.8 can also be loaded in a Pharo 2.0 image either from the Configuration Browser, or by executing the following script:
Gofer new
smalltalkhubUser: 'Moose' project: 'Moose';
package: 'ConfigurationOfMoose';
load.
((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfMoose)
project version: '4.8-snapshot') load