Archive for October, 2006
Friday, October 13th, 2006
Cem Kaner, who wrote two of my favorite books on testing (and a guide to suing software vendors), is speaking at the Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality meeting on Tuesday, October 17, at 7:00 pm in the Wallberg Building at the University of Toronto. The talk is ...
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
When I started revising the Software Carpentry course a couple of years ago, I thought it was going to be a how-to guide to lightweight software development practices for computational scientists and engineers. As I worked on it, though, I realized there was a deeper message:
Most scientists have no ...
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
My friend Adam Goucher is hiring at Points International. He's a sharp guy, and even more cynical than me ;-) It's on Queen West, and he can teach you a lot...
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Three ex-students of mine, and a grad student who has done some work for me, are looking for jobs. They're all smart, hard-working people with good skillz --- if you're looking for developers, their details are below.
Amit Chandel
Billy Chun
Serge Gonchar
Jeff Okawa
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Monday, October 9th, 2006
Joanne Moretti of CA Canada is talking at MaRS tomorrow (Oct 10). It's late notice, but I think it'll be an interesting talk.
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Friday, October 6th, 2006
I am very pleased to announce the first release candidate for DrProject 1.1. We're very grateful for David Scannell [1] for dozens of improvements and bug fixes. DrProject is a fork of Trac with:
support for multiple projects in a single installation;
integrated mailing lists;
tagging and tag clouds;
a web-based administrative ...
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Google has launched Code Search, which does exactly what the name says. You are not expected to understand this.
Later: you can find lots of cool things with Code Search...
Later still: another reason to like Python... ;-)
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
It's not enough that my students mock me --- now XKCD is doing it too...
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Via SolutionWatch, a list of Web 2.0 tools for students and teachers. This is the first in a three-part series; lots of good ideas here. (Part 2 and Part 3 are online.)
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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Videos of Richard Feynman lecturing on physics. 'Nuff said.
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