CSS Guru Wanted
Thursday, August 25th, 2005If you know more than the average bear about CSS, and you'd be willing to spend a couple of hours tuning the look and feel of the Software Carpentry course notes, please give me a shout.
Archive for August, 2005
If you know more than the average bear about CSS, and you'd be willing to spend a couple of hours tuning the look and feel of the Software Carpentry course notes, please give me a shout.
Hot Links
Thursday, August 25th, 2005Karen Reid's having so much fun writing a little Python CGI to do some on-line data entry that I decided to take some time off from editing the Software Carpentry course notes, and get my del.icio.us bookmarks on-line. Enjoy...
The Journal of Young Investigators
Thursday, August 25th, 2005JYI is a peer-reviewed forum for undergraduate science. Very cool idea---I wonder if they take Computer Science articles?
Fifty… Million… Calls
Thursday, August 25th, 2005"House" and "CSI" (the original) are two of my favorite TV shows. Partly, it's the characters---Hugh Laurie and Marg Helgenberger are both brilliant---but I also enjoy watching smart people debugging. Sure, they're dealing with diseases and crime scenes, but deep down it's all the same: something's wrong, and you have to figure out what. The Argon ...
It’s Been a Busy Summer
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005Over the past four months, our five undergraduate students have done a ton of work on our fork of Trac (which we're now calling DrProject). They've designed a new interface, written a ton of code, refactored another ton, and fixed and filed a anthill's worth of bugs. I ...
Slow Imports
Monday, August 22nd, 2005Argon (our re-worked Trac) is now up and running on the CDF lab machines, but it's very, very slow: 5-10 seconds per request at best. We've tracked the problem down to the import statements, which are taking 3.5 seconds or more each time the CGI is executed (we're running ...
Software Carpentry at Indiana University
Monday, August 22nd, 2005Andy Lumsdaine is offering the Software Carpentry course at Indiana University starting on August 29, under the heading B649 Software Tools and Practices.
Dawson and Kerr in DDJ
Monday, August 22nd, 2005The 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.
Mugged by Bots
Thursday, August 18th, 2005Computer characters mugged in virtual crime spree is just more proof of Toffler's Law: the future always arrives too soon, and in the wrong order.