Blitzweekend: A 48 hour hackfest in Montreal
Starting Friday at 5pm is Blitzweekend: a 48 coding marathon and product incubator. You and a team develop an idea. There really aren’t any rules, it is an opportunity to meet some people, do some innovation, and show off your chops.
This will be a new experience for since code development has always been a very private endeavour: I usually lock myself in a room and emerge a few weeks later with strange products. It will be an interesting expreience though, and I both look forward to and fear meeting so many people. I sometimes get uncomfortable in social circumstances. It isn’t an accident that I work with computers.
Anyway, my Blitzweekend product will be a Heron editor that provides two methods of editing the source: visually (like a UML editor) and textually (like … well a text editor). My partner Hugo Duncan, is planning on developing a Heron to XMI and back again converter so that we can interoperability with other UML tools. This will be the first xUML editor that I am aware of that provides a view of the models in text format and allows them to be edited. Hopefully I will have something fun to share at the end of this.