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Intentional Software - Democratizing Software Creation

Posted by Charles Simonyi and Henk Kolk on May 15, 2008 04:40 PM

Community
Architecture
Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Artifacts & Tools,
Customers & Requirements
Tags
JAOO Conference,
Business Natural Languages,
Code Generation,
Domain Modeling,
Intentional Software
Summary
Business users doing programming? Charles Simonyi and Henk Kolk presents how Intentional Software offers a radical new software approach that separates business knowledge from software engineering knowledge, which means that business experts can be more innovative and responsive to the changes in the domain.

Bio
Charles Simonyi is a co-founder of Intentional Software, a company that accelerates innovation by integrating the business domain experts into the software production process. Henk Kolk is the CTO of Capgemini's Financial Services Sector in the Netherlands. He is responsible for the implementation of Model Driven Architecture and Business Domain Languages.

About the conference
JAOO is the premier European developer conference on software technology, methods and best practices. The conference presents in-depth presentations and tutorials by researchers, engineers and trend-setters in software engineering and technology.

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Issue with video by E Groff Posted May 17, 2008 10:09 AM
Re: Issue with video by Floyd Marinescu Posted May 19, 2008 5:51 PM
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    Issue with video

    May 17, 2008 10:09 AM by E Groff

    The video fails halfway through and skips back to the beginning. I would love to see the entire content!

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    Re: Issue with video

    May 19, 2008 5:51 PM by Floyd Marinescu

    E, I can't replicate this problem. I can scroll to any point in the video and it plays fine. Try forwarding the video time index to just after it seems to stop for you?

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