Happy New Year!

Apologies to regular readers who wondered if I’d fallen off the planet. It’s been a busy second half of 2005, and I haven’t managed to do much reading or writing for a few months. However, with the builders gone and a very difficult year over, hopefully things will get back to more nearly normal!

Sorry, there’s no Coppertrees Calendar for 2006 – another casualty of our very busy 2005. Hopefully it will make a return in 2007.I’m currently working on a new paper, looking at the different ways of modelling dependencies in software. I’m hoping it’s possible to merge some of the matrix-based techniques with pattern-based approaches – watch this space for more details.A very Happy New Year to all my readers. Here’s hoping that we’ll all have a slightly easier 2006.