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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Some of our summer interns have started blogging about their projects:
Dojo Form Editor
DrProject Admin
DrProject IRC Integration
DrProject Testing & Documentation
DrProject Ticketing
Flare Dataflow Editor
Hackystat Data Visualization
Hackystat and Visual Studio
OpenAFS Console
OS161 Visualization
SlashID
Web-CAT
I'll add more as I get them.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
A couple of students have asked, so here's my reading list:
"ACM Queue", "Communications of the ACM", "IEEE Software", "IEEE Computer": all are magazines, rather than peer-reviewed research journals; I flip through each one when I find it just to see if there's anything of interest. Good for broad, high-level ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
...about the work that Mike Wu and Ronald Fung did for Thunderbird last term. Feedback from other clients was equally positive; I'm hoping/looking forward to running the course again next year.
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Our summer interns started this morning---we got Summer of Code, we got NSERC USRA, we got ITCDF, we got you name it, a lab and a half's worth. I gave the least coherent welcoming speech of my life (bad cold, little sleep), our trusty sys admin Alan helped 'em ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
I mailed my former undergraduate project students a few days ago to find out where they are now and what they're doing, and thought readers of this blog might be interested in their answers.
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Google announced this year's Summer of Code projects today. I'm very pleased that six students from the University of Toronto were among the recipients:
Matthew Basset / Hackystat: Hackystat Sensor for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
Eran Henig / Python: Python Plugin for Web-CAT
Victoria Mui / GenMAPP: Automatic (Smart) Node and ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
A year and a bit ago, I posted pictures of DrProject's database schema and architecture. I'm happy with the former --- the only thing I'd do differently is make it larger and add comments (or change field names to be more descriptive) --- but the latter still bugs me. It ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Via Lin Zhou:
From: Susan Dorward
Google has started offering coaching to most of their employees, and I've been lucky enough to be approved as one of their coaches. They recently sponsored a series of talks given by their coaches and they have posted videos of these talks up on YouTube. ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Two of the students in this term's consulting course, Robert Beghian and Tom Plaskon, spent the term working with haXe. Their impressions of it are below...
HaXe is a high-level, object-oriented programming language for the development of web applications. Programs written in haXe can be compiled on several platforms including ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
There's a metric shoeful of demo videos up on the consulting course web site now showing off what students did this term. I (or rather Samira and Jeremy, two of my grad students) would be particularly interested in comments on their tool for threading project histories --- it's going to ...
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