Archive for July, 2007
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
More recent academic reading:
Luo, Chen, and Yu: "Toward a progress indicator for program compilation." Software: Practice & Experience, 37:909-33, 2007. It turns out that building an accurate progress bar for compilation is a lot harder than you'd think. This is a good example of the kind of ...
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Via Zachary Dodds: Microsoft is hosting a workshop on computational education for scientists in September. I'm going to try to be there---anyone else?
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
If you go, I'd welcome a review:
Dr. Dobb's Architecture and Design World 2007 (Chicago, July 24-27)
Software Development Best Practices 2007 (Boston, Sept. 18-21)
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Interesting post by Peter Brantley, with quotes and data from Jerry McDonough, quantifying the decline in students' use of university libraries.
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
CRAP is "Change Risk Analysis and Predictions", and it's the subject of Alberto Savoia's latest Artima posting. (Alberto wrote about testing for Beautiful Code.)
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
This is what happens when you come back from vacation around here... ;-)
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
The latest issue of SIGCSE Bulletin (Vol 39, #3, Sept 2007) has the proceedings from the 12th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE'07). The papers aren't available (directly) on the web, though students can get them through through the U of T library, and ...
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
Phantom Fiber has a couple of openings in Toronto:
Development
We're looking for good Java developers to write software that translates between our customers back-end protocols, and the mobile-device optimized protocols that our client apps use. We have a lot of interesting work coming down the pipe, and so initiative, independent ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
Beautiful Code now has its own blog, managed by Michael Feathers (author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code, which is one of my favorite programming books). If you'd like to contribute, we'd like to hear from you.
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Good advice from Adam Goucher --- particularly relevant to students ;-)
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