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Friday, July 18th, 2008
And this week:
Kosta Zabashta has discovered that infinite loops can span machines.
Nicole Allard has finished her Eclipse plugin, and made a new screencast to show it off.
Liz Blankenship has been busy.
Dan Servos has discovered that the web never sleeps.
Eva Wong is assembling her final GUI.
Jeff Balogh is wrestling with grids.
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Tomorrow is Nick Jamil's last day with us---he'ss done a great job of building a variable-speed ticketing system for DrProject, but now he's got to put all that energy into getting married :-) To wrap up, he has put two posts on his blog:
The problems that join limits in SQLite ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Tuesday was Kosta's turn; today was Victoria Mui's. Having spent most of the last week and a half reading source code, she got up a few minutes ago and gave a quick talk about her Google Summer of Code project at the Cytoscape retreat. I was impressed once again with ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
...but mostly fun: DemoCamp 18 was last night, and as Lillian's review says, it went pretty well. The venue was too small, and as she said, some of the off-color humor was a little tiresome, but it was good to see such a strong turnout from U of T, ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Kosta Zabashta is looking for input on one more feature for DrProject IRC integration before his demo on Tuesday. You could win a prize! (Not from him or me, just... you know, generally, there's nothing stopping you from winning something from someone...)
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Week 9 of 15 (or 10, or 16, depending on which student we're talking about), and we're all staying busy:
I wrote five mid-term evaluations this morning. Unsurprisingly, I had more to say about the students who blog regularly than about those who don't.
Qiyu Zhu has wrapped up the role editor. ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Eva Wong was out of town for the mid-term demos last Friday, so she made a screencast instead. It's pretty cool---and the live demos just plain rocked. I'm constantly impressed by how much students can do when they're given real challenges, and a chance to focus on them.
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
I am going to be running a consulting course for senior undergrads this fall, in which pairs or triples of students will write real software for real customers. (I'll be running the course again in the winter term for graduate students.) The brochure for the April 2008 Capstone Showcase ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
We had our second student-industry lunch yesterday, and I think it was just as much a success as the first one. My thanks to everyone from Engenuity, Firestoker, IBM, Microsoft, MITACS, Mukodu, OCE, Red Hat, Scimatic, and ZeroFootprint who came out to chat to our students about life in the ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Dan Servos has the first visuals from his grade stats plugin for Moodle.
After a week of hard work, Qi Yang has plugged into Eclipse.
Eva Wong has discovered that structuring projects from scratch is hard, but now has a handle on the data she's going to visualize.
Joseph Yeung is making steady ...
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