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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Last year, Dr. Dobb's Journal ran a series of short articles describing some of 2005's Summer of Code projects, and we'd like to give this year's participants the same kind of recognition. Some samples from the last time around are on the new DDJ web site at:
http://www.ddj.com/184406349
http://www.ddj.com/184406383
http://www.ddj.com/184406437
http://www.ddj.com/184406467
If you're an ...
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
The second part of a StickyMinds article on Data Crunching is now on-line (the first part went up in February).
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Sunday, February 26th, 2006
Part 1 of an article on data crunching is now up on the StickyMinds web site. Part 2 should follow in a couple of weeks.
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
The Jan/Feb 2006 issue of American Scientist, the magazine of Sigma Xi, contains an article on Software Carpentry.
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Thursday, December 8th, 2005
Book reviews by our very own Jorge Aranda and Laura MacDougall are now on the DDJ web site. (Unfortunately, they're behind a paywall, but trust me, they're spiffalicious.)
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Thursday, November 24th, 2005
Jon Erickson, the editor-in-chief of Doctor Dobb's Journal, asked me to write a couple of paragraphs about a typical developer's typical day. As usual, I went a little overboard; unusually, I veered toward the bright side.
It's 9:30. You've caught up on email from the contractors in India, skimmed ...
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Thursday, November 17th, 2005
The first four Doctor Dobb's Journal articles about Google's Summer of Code projects are now on the web:
Apache Axis2 JMX Front
CL-GODB: A Common Lisp GO Database Manipulation Library
Wide Character Support in NetBSD Curses Library
gjournal: FreeBSD GEOM Journaling Layer
There are more queued up behind them, so stay tuned.
Coincidentally, my latest book ...
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Friday, September 9th, 2005
I'm collecting articles from participants in Google's Summer of Code for Doctor Dobb's Journal. We're going to run 4-8 articles, each roughly 400 words long, for several months. It's pretty cool stuff---I'm awed by the talent of the students who took part.
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Friday, September 9th, 2005
Focus on Java has just published an interview with me about Data Crunching.
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Monday, August 22nd, 2005
The September 2005 issue of Doctor Dobb's Journal has an article on testing web applications written by Sean Dawson and Kristin Kerr. Sean and Kristin did the work the article describes as a CSC49X project in Fall 2004.
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