Thursday, February 16, 2006

Some ideas for posts

Since starting this blog I have been thinking about subjects that would be interesting to PVC users. I'm currently thinking about developing posts on the following subjects:

Common web application design patterns
This post would start a discussion on common design patterns that we would all like to see supported to enable faster development of simulations.

RAIs and Serena Composer
It is my belief that Rich Internet Application technologies such as Flex and AJAX are likely to major factors in web app development in the next 12 to 24 months. As such I think it would be interesting to start a discussion on how tools such as Serena Composer will adapt to this change in the presentation logic layer.

How Do I's
From my perspective the most useful aspect of the Serena Composer documentation is the "How Do I?" section. These tutorials while very effective are still a little thin on the ground as such I thought it might be interesting to begin creating some of our own.

Do you have any ideas for posts in relation to Serena Composer or indeed software specification, simulation and high fidelity prototyping tools in general? If so please feel free to add into this discussion.

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Welcome to Serena Composer users

This blog has been setup to provide a public forum for people using software specification, simulation and high fidelity prototyping tools - specifically Serena Composer from Serena Software.

If you who are currently using Serena Composer, looking to use it or just generally interested in requirements visualization and prototyping tools please read on and add your comments.

By making this public I hope we can all help illustrate how to use some of the fantastic functionality that resides in Serena Composer for future users and maybe even provide ideas on how to make to make it even better.

David Ruiz the product manager for Serena Composer and previously a co-founder of Apptero (which originated Composer) has promised to actively participate in the discussion generated in this forum. Also I live in hope that Serena will allow some of it's engineers to comment as they feel applicable.