Ruby Blogging Contest
Sunday, December 31st, 2006Interesting post: Apress is bringing out 10 new Ruby books this year, targeting everyone from beginners to systems administrators. Maybe it's time...
Archive for December, 2006
Interesting post: Apress is bringing out 10 new Ruby books this year, targeting everyone from beginners to systems administrators. Maybe it's time...
Eleven Weeks to Go
Friday, December 29th, 2006Third (and final) ultrasound this morning --- 11 weeks to go! Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4
Experiences with OpenID?
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006As regular readers will know, one of the features I like most in DrProject (and its predecessor, Trac) is the RSS feed it automatically creates showing events from each project. Unfortunately, we've had to disable the feeds for class projects at U of T, since we don't want students in ...
The Crack of the Commissar’s Pistol
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006I don't know Peter Guttmann, but judging from his cost analysis Windows Vista content protection (note: not cost-benefit analysis, since there aren't enough of the latter to count), he'd be an interesting drinking companion. (Via Bruce Schneier.) It's hard to square this with Jon Udell's belief in a new, ...
More Sympathetic Magic
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006Michael Arrington, at TechCrunch, has updated his year-old list of companies he'd like to profile that didn't exist at the time. His mojo must be stronger than mine: my "Not on the Shelves" articles have only ever led to a couple of books, but many of the companies he described ...
Reports from Fall Projects on the Web
Friday, December 22nd, 2006The A&E's and final reports from the fall CSC49X projects are now on the web. It was a productive term; I'm proud of how much this term's teams accomplished.
Multi-Series Charts in Excel
Friday, December 22nd, 2006I am increasingly fascinated with, and frustrated by, spreadsheets. Like most computer scientists, I have mostly ignored them, thinking that they were toys for non-programmers. The more I play with Excel for managing grading and other tasks, though, the more impressed I am. But now I have a problem. ...
Galcon for the Holidays
Thursday, December 21st, 2006The last thing I need in my life right now is an addictive computer game, so what have I found? Galcon, that's what. It's a five-minute real-time strategy game (think "Risk" on speed). If y'all want to crush a prof, get back to me in the New Year --- I ...
In Need of an Annotation Tool
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006One of the profs in the Computer Science department at U of T wants to create a web-based forum in which researchers can discuss key papers in their area. The system he has in mind would let people post papers as PDF or PostScript, then allow users to add ...
Give a U of T Student a Design Project
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006Could your business use some help with a design problem? Perhaps you are wrestling with space layout, storage problems, environmental analysis, energy decisions, technology choices, websites or something along these lines? For the course Engineering Strategies and Practices, 1,000 first-year students must tackle a team design project for a community ...