Intelligence 1, Intelligent Design 0
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005A US court has ruled that intelligent design cannot be taught in a Grade 9 class, because it isn't science. Score one for Team Enlightenment.
Archive for December, 2005
A US court has ruled that intelligent design cannot be taught in a Grade 9 class, because it isn't science. Score one for Team Enlightenment.
It’s Just Unevenly Distributed
Monday, December 19th, 2005Once again, I have to quote William Gibson: the future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. Check out eyeOS, a desktop-in-a-browser that comes with editor, calculator, and a bunch of other tools. Sure, it's kind of slow, but it's very pretty... You can even take it ...
I’d Vote for Her
Friday, December 16th, 2005I watched part of the first Canadian federal election debate last night. Then I read Michelle Levesque's latest post. Given the option, I'd vote for her.
Sean Dawson to join DrProject team in January
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005Thanks to generous support from Prof. Steve Easterbrook, Sean Dawson will be working on DrProject alongside Chris Lenz and Jason Montojo in January. We're looking forward to a productive month.
Maintaining Correctness
Sunday, December 11th, 2005I'm re-thinking the lectures in the Software Carpentry course based on feedback from this term's students. I'm going to merge the three lectures on different development processes into one, and use the space that frees up to talk in more detail about programming style and software design---assuming, of course, ...
Evidence
Sunday, December 11th, 2005Every time I complain about Python's muddled response to Ruby on Rails, someone pushes back by saying, "What does it matter?" This screenshot, taken from the "what we provide" page of a web hosting company, might serve as an answer: Yup: Ruby gets a whole column of its own, while ...
American Scientist article on Software Carpentry
Friday, December 9th, 2005The Jan/Feb 2006 issue of American Scientist, the magazine of Sigma Xi, contains an article on Software Carpentry.
Four More Books
Thursday, December 8th, 2005So, how's your web site doing? Are people reading what you blog? Downloading your software? Simple statistics are fairly easy to gather, but if the web is how you make your living, simple stats may not be enough: you might need to find out what percentage of your ...
Laurie and Jorge’s book reviews in DDJ
Thursday, December 8th, 2005Book 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.)
Summer of Code Part Deux
Thursday, December 8th, 2005The second round of Google Summer of Code mini-articles are now on the Doctor Dobb's Journal web site.