Merks' Meanderings

The opinions expressed here are my own, not someone else's. If they seem rational, that's purely coincidental and you are likely reading far too much between the lines.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

New Beginnings

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I'm back from my fantastic sailing trip from Quebec to Newfoundland on the Canadian Sailing Expedition's Caledonia. Isn't she...

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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Bon Voyage

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Yesterday was the official last day of my 16 years of employment at IBM. I marked the occasion with a trip down to the Markham lab to dro...

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Statistical Trends in Modeling

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Yesterday's posting about BIRT job trends was interesting and naturally it prompted me to do a few searches of my own, not that I'm...

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Sunday, July 13, 2008

Specifications and Standards: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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I think our industry might soon have more specifications than stars in the known universe. Fortunately, even if we run out of meaningful n...

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Where's the Modeling Package?

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I'm a little disappointed now that Ganymede is finally out. Of course I'm generally in a funk whenever I actually reach whatever g...

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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Out With the Old, In With the New

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After a whirl wind week of upheaval, I've arrived in geek heaven. I blogged about the OMG Eclipse Symposium, but I didn't have time...

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Eclipse OMG Symposium

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The symposium started with an introduction by Kenn Hussey who talked about the nature of open specifications, open source, and how the two r...

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Ed Merks: I lead the top-level Eclipse Modeling Project as well as the Eclipse Modeling Framework subproject. I hold a Ph.D. in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University. I have my own small company, macromodeling.

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