I am pleased to announce that we made our standard templates for A3 reports available as a free download from Modelus.com website: http://modelus.com/Products/A3Templates.aspx.

Earlier this year, I have reviewed Managing to Learn by John Shook and Understanding A3 Thinking by Durward K. Sobek II and Art Smalley. Both of these books have been highly influential on the design of the templates. Check them out.

Enjoy!

As part of the BlogEngine.NET upgrade, we started using Feed Burner to syndicate our blog feed and better understand our subscribers. Special thanks to Bob MacNeal for recommending Feed Burner.

If you subscribe to our blog, please update your link to  http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ModelusBlog. Our old link will continue to function for a few more months. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you.

Our new open source product went live this week: Modelus Specification. It is an implementation of a very powerful design pattern originally described in the Domain Driven Design book by Eric Evans as well as in this article by Eric Evans and Martin Fowler.

The library is written in C# using generic interfaces. The source code, binaries, and documentation are distributed under the Apache open source license, version 2.0. 

Give Modelus Specification library a try and check out our other open-source products. Let me know what you think or if you have any questions. Enjoy!

We would like to announce the release of our new product: Log4Net Extensions.

It is a .NET library that enables sending HTML-formatted messages with Log4Net. Modelus Log4Net Extensions are distributed under the Apache open source license, version 2.0. 

Check it out: http://www.modelus.com/Products/Log4NetExtensions.aspx. Enjoy!

We would like to announce the release of our new product: Report Usher.

It is a simple but powerful .NET Web Application that centralizes access to the reports deployed to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Modelus Report Usher is distributed under the Apache open source license, version 2.0. 

Check it out: http://www.modelus.com/Products/ReportUsher.aspx. Enjoy!

Our new Modelus Blog is launched!

Welcome to our blog. I am very happy to see you here and hope you will visit us again soon.

Here is what is going to be waiting for you:

• Product announcements
• Industry news and events
• Monthly book reviews
• Interesting links and opinions
• And much, much more...