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Student Blogs

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.

What I’m Reading These Days

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 ...

David Ascher Has Nice Things To Say…

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.

Aaaand They’re Off!

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 ...

Where Are They Now?

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.

Crowded House

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 ...

OK, What Would *You* Draw?

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 ...

Google Mentoring Videos

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. ...

Student Impressions of haXe

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 ...

Consulting Course Videos

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 ...