My name is Rafael Chaves (resume / currículo). I am a software development aficionado, and the founder (and currently only contributor) at Abstratt Technologies, an incubating software company that develops tools for model-driven software development. Want to know more? Click on the image below:

This is my personal wiki. I started it as an easy way to sketch ideas I eventually have or write about things I would like to do/am doing. Feel free to add your own comments/questions too. Feedback is most welcome.

I am very interested in the use of aspects in the context of MDA, two great ways to achieve separation of concerns in software. That was the theme of my master's thesis (in Portuguese, a short paper in English available here). I am also interested in object-oriented design, model-driven development, distributed computing, and software engineering and architecture in general.

Looking for my old (outdated) static page in Portuguese? It is still available here.

Other starting points:

By the way: this wiki runs on PmWiki. If you are not familiar with PmWiki's formatting rules, please see: Tips For Editing.

Unfortunately, due to the incessant spamming, I had to make most of this wiki password protected. If you want to get in touch with me, please use the ReaderFeedback topic. If you want timely response, it is better to contact me directly by e-mail (rchaves |at| modelprogrammer.com).

Enjoy!

News

July 9th, 2008

TextUML Toolkit 1.0 has been released!

After much hard work, the TextUML Toolkit 1.0 is now available. Please read here for a detailed write-up.

June 13th, 2008

One year of Victoria

Unbelievably, one year has passed since we moved to Victoria after spending almost year in Brazil. Since January, I have been with Genologics (btw: Genologics is quite a special company to work for. They are hiring, so if you are a software developer looking for opportunities and live - or wanna live - in Victoria, you should definitely apply).

I have been quite active on the Abstratt front for the last few months, and am very close to finally shipping the first release of the TextUML Toolkit.

May 10th, 2007

Moving to Victoria

And we are finally moving to the west coast. This has been a long time goal for us and it is finally happening. I will be joining Sierra Systems as a software developer on June 15th. We will arrive a few days ahead, so we will have some time to get to know the town a bit before my first day at work.

May 1st, 2007

abstratt's website goes live

See the official announcement. Includes the first deliverable: the TextUML Toolkit.

March 23rd, 2007

abstratt's blog is up

abstratt technologies has just got a blog: http://abstratt.com/blog/. Check it out!

July 16th, 2006

Back to Brazil

After almost four years living in Ottawa, we are taking a break from the harsh Canadian winter (ironically right when it is summer in Canada and winter in Brazil). Also of note is the fact that I left my job at IBM to start working on my own business, a company that will develop tools for model-driven development. The plan is to head back to Canada before August 2007, hopefully to the warmer and sunnier Victoria, and with version 1.0 of the product available to the public.