Mindquarry mentioned at fazjob.net

posted 08:56PM Dec 13, 2006 with tags hpi mindquarry press by Lars Trieloff

fazjob.net, the career network of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of the leading german quality newspaper is featuring a (german) article on the HPI (my alma mater) which mentions Mindquarry (my company): "Der Mäzen kommt zum Chili con Carne".

HPI Podcast Institute

posted 09:12PM Nov 06, 2006 with tags engineering hpi podcast software by Lars Trieloff

The HPI (Hasso Plattner Institute) where I studied until april of this year offers a cool news service to its students: The HPI Blog and Podcast. This podcasts allows students to follow the lecures offline by downloading lecure recordings to their iPods. Apparently this idea has been influenced by the Software Engineering Radio, Stanford on iTunes U and the SAP Network Podcasts.

This is not the first educational podcast from Germany (think of Prof. Oliver Vornberger's Algorithmen podcast), but definitely the first with lecures from high-profile speakers like Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner.

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Fundamental Modeling Concepts

posted 12:50PM Apr 12, 2006 with tags fmc hpi modeling by Lars Trieloff

As a former student of the Hasso Plattner Institute I am a big fan of FMC, the Fundamental Modeling Concepts. Bruno Vernay has found the Apache Modeling Project which describes the architecture of the Apache web server using FMC models. Bruno says:
I am still not convinced that FMC is more usefull than UML to describe high level concepts. But anyway, it is a great document.
From my experience, FMC has proved an excellent tool for modeling, describing and understanding complex software systems. It has a clear, consise and defined syntax, allows hiding of abstractions for didagtic reasons and its main concepts can be explained fast, but it is still able to express complex constructs.