Released uml2svg-0.15 Last Night

After a 24h code rush we managed to release a new version of uml2svg, an XSLT-based tool for converting UML diagrams into SVG. Support has been added for UML 2.0 sequence diagrams. Diagram name and canvas outline are now displayed for UML 2.0 diagrams.

Starting with this version, uml2svg will be released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Previous versions can still be distributed according to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). This change was necessary in order to assure more compatibility with other tools, and especially with PragMaTic.

A new release adding support for UML 2.0 state and activity diagrams is planned for the following days/weeks. We are trying to preserve the stability of version 0.14 so if you encounter any problems plese let us know about it. Also if you have any kind of requirements the current version of uml2svg does not fullfil please let us know too.

The Picture

Strasbourg and the European Parliament

Yesterday I was on a trip to Strasbourg organized by Stiftung Demokratie Saarland and the IMPRS. We visited the European Parliament and the Cathedral, had lunch in the 600 years old restaurant named "Au Pont St-Martin" and wondered through the city with a really nice guide. I made a ton of pictures and uploaded the best on Flickr. Enjoy :)

I want to ride my bicycle ...

... I want to ride my bike. So yes, I have a bike now, bought it yesterday from a friend of mine who built it by himself. It is a custom made mountain bike, and best of all it is BLUE. Today I'm going on a trip to Strasbourg so no bicycle today. But tomorrow ...

Learning

I'm in vacation for several weeks now, but that does not mean I'm taking a break from learning. Here is what I currently learn or plan to learn in the very near future:

• More Semantics
  
• Haskell
• Category Theory
• Program Analysis
• Model Checking
  

More about the dead pixels

• Three pixels may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
• Either this pixel is dead or my watch has stopped.
• Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living pixels to the dead ones, now usually attributed by adult pixels to children pixels, and by children pixels to adult pixels.
• The dead pixels cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living pixels to do so for them.
• Do not speak ill of the dead pixels.
• A pixel without ambition is dead. A pixel with ambition but no love is dead. A pixel with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
• The living pixels need charity more than the dead ones.
• The poor pixels wish to be rich pixels, the rich pixels wish to be happy pixels, the single pixels wish to be married pixels, and the married pixels wish to be dead pixels.
• Immortality is the condition of a dead pixel who doesn't believe he is dead.
• In the long run we are all dead pixels.
• The only completely consistent pixels are the dead.
• It's not that I'm afraid to become a dead pixel, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
• Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you become a dead pixel, your pixel soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck

http://www.quotationspage.com/

I see dead pixels

Cole Sear: I see dead pixels.
Malcolm Crowe: In your dreams?
[Cole shakes his head no]
Malcolm Crowe: While you're awake?
[Cole nods]
Malcolm Crowe: Dead pixels like, in graves? In coffins?
Cole Sear: Walking around like regular pixels. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead.
Malcolm Crowe: How often do you see them?
Cole Sear: All the time.

Lynn Sear: Cole, you're scaring me.
Cole Sear: They scare me too sometimes.
Lynn Sear: They?
Cole Sear: Dead pixels.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404/quotes

Old programmers never die

Old programmers never die. They just decompile.
Old programmers never die. They just lose their memory.
Old programmers never die. They just byte it.
Old programmers never die. They just get bugged with life.
Old programmers never die. They just go to bits.
Old programmers never die. They just branch to a new address.
Old programmers never die. They just can'tC as well
Old programming wizards never die, they just recurse.
Old C programmers never die. They are just cast into void*
Old Java programmers never die. They are garbage collected.
Old programmers never die. They just terminate and stay resident.