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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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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Yesterday's consulting course showcase went well: lots of visitors, lots of noise, lots of fun. David Wolever was there to take pictures...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Tomorrow (Wednesday, April 9, 2008), from 1-3 pm, the students in my consulting course will be giving their end-of-term demos upstairs at Molly Bloom's on College Street. This brochure describes what they've been doing---there's quite a range, and I hope everyone will find some reason (other than the beer) to ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
News story: the College Board told U.S. teachers in an e-mail yesterday that four underenrolled Advanced Placement courses will be eliminated after the 2008-09 academic year... The courses being cut -- Italian, Latin literature, French literature and computer science AB-- are among the least popular in the AP portfolio.
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
On Wednesday April 9, from 1-3 pm, the students in my combined capstone/grad course on software consulting will be giving demos of their term projects upstairs at Molly Bloom's (191 College Street, Toronto). If you'd like to see what they've been up to, you can check out this brochure. Everyone ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
This term, the students in my third-year software engineering course have been working in teams to build a shared to-do list plugin for Facebook. Each of the six teams has worked independently (well, as independently as students ever work) for the first three exercises. For the fourth, each team conducted ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
UBC, UVic, and SFU are hosting this year's "Rising Stars of Research" showcase on August 21-23. Its poster competition is a chance for undergraduates to show off their research in Health Sciences, Biochemistry & Cellular Biology, Natural Resources & the Environment, Life Sciences & Psychology, Computational Sciences & Technology, and ...
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