Somerset, June 2006
Introduction
I am a Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth University. I am an Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Software.News
- 2010/02/07: 'Comparative study of DSL tools' paper added
- 2009/12/16: 'A Proposal for Error Handling' article added
- 2009/09/24: extsmail 1.2 released
- 2009/09/15: 'The Missing Level of Abstraction?' article added
- 2009/09/08: Converge 1.1 released
Research
My overall research interests relate to practical aspects of software development, with the aim of facilitating the rapid and reliable development and maintenance of both large and small software systems. I am interested in domain specific languages, extensible programming languages, and software modelling.Software
Over the years I have been responsible for a number of software packages on different platforms. Some of the publicly available software I still actively maintain can be found below:- Converge: An advanced object orientated programming language.
- email_merger: A simple
mail merge for e-mail
program. - extsmail: Robust sending of e-mail to external commands.
- Fetegeo: Free text geocoding.
- packagesbootstrap: download binary packages in bulk for OpenBSD.
- perfd: a laptop power / performance daemon for OpenBSD.