Archive for the ‘Basie’ Category
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Jason Montojo is trying to figure out how to operationalize some aspects of expertise --- he'd welcome your suggestions. How do you tell if one programmer is better than another?
Aran Donohue has posted a few hundred words about his intended research (debugging DSLs). He has also summarized some papers on ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
As one term ends, so another begins, and we're very excited to have another good team of summer interns this year:
Mike Conley, Severin Gehwolf, Amanda Manarin, and Nelle Varoquaux are working on OLM for Karen Reid
Ainsley Lawson, Samar Sabie, Sarah Strong, and Maria Yancheva are doing climate change projects for ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
Over on the Basie blog, Zuzel Vera Pacheco writes:
This week I presented cdocs at the Scientific Student Day as part of the thesis’ requirements. It won two awards: Best Work and Best Written Work. Also I got the membership to the Cuban Society of Mathematics and Computer Science and a ...
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
As I've mentioned previously, we're moving DrProject over to Django. Work started in September, and the second release is coming up soon. The schedule highlights some of the differences between doing development with full-time developers, and doing it with students who are working 1/5 or 1/4 time:
Friday March 20: feature ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
I blogged a couple of weeks ago about this term's consulting projects. Here are a few more details:
Hanieh Bastani is working with AutoDesk to create animation software with realistic flesh and bone models.
Botond Ballo, David Cooper, Eran Henig, Bill Konrad, Derek Kwok, Phyllis Lee, and Kosta Zabashta are porting ...
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
One of the things I teach my students is that the real purpose of a schedule is to tell you when to start cutting corners and dropping features. The ticker on my web site tells me I have 489 days left in my contract with the university; I signed up ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
There's a quote (attributed to various people---I'd welcome a pointer to the original) to the effect that if you show me your code, I don't know what you're doing, but if you show me your data structures, I'll understand. To figure out just how far our students got rebuilding DrProject ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Since September, half a dozen students at four universities have been rebuilding DrProject (our lightweight classroom-friendly replacement for Trac) on top of Django (a Rails-like web programming framework written in Python). What's made this project different---and IMHO better---is the use of code reviews. Blake Winton, a local Python ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
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