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Monday, March 31st, 2008http://www.kongregate.com/games/bontegames/factory-balls I hate addictive puzzle games... Especially ones with soundtracks...
Archive for March, 2008
http://www.kongregate.com/games/bontegames/factory-balls I hate addictive puzzle games... Especially ones with soundtracks...
Meet the New Flaw
Monday, March 31st, 2008I was pretty excited when I heard that Microsoft was getting into scientific computing. As the world's biggest desktop software company, I figured they might understand that scientific computing and high-performance computing are not automatically the same thing, and that reliability and reproducibility are more important than peak performance. ...
Honor Where Honor’s Due
Monday, March 31st, 2008The folks at LabLit would like to make sure that the inventors of the metaphors used to explain science get due credit. Hear, hear!
Old Dogs Are Suspicious of New Tricks
Sunday, March 30th, 2008There was a brief flurry of email on the DrProject list this week about using JSON instead of XML for communication between clients (in our case, browsers and the occasional client-side script) and servers. The younger members of the team were excited about the advantages: less typing, easier to read, ...
SciBarCamp in the News (or at least the National Post)
Saturday, March 29th, 2008http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=407775&p=1
An Unexpected Result
Friday, March 28th, 2008This term, the students in my third-year software engineering course have been working in teams to build a shared to-do list plugin for Facebook. Each of the six teams has worked independently (well, as independently as students ever work) for the first three exercises. For the fourth, each team conducted ...
SoC Minus 4 Days
Thursday, March 27th, 2008There's only four days left for students to get proposals in. I've suggested a few projects, but the following are still waiting to be picked up: A feature diagram plugin for Eclipse A continuous documentation module for SCons Multiple pipelines for the Hotwire hypershell (under the GNOME banner) If you're interested, or know someone ...
Beautiful Code Panel
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Jon Erickson has posted a video clip from the Beautiful Code panel held at SD West a couple of weeks ago. Michael Feathers, Jim Kent, Christopher Seiwald, Elliotte Harold, Ron Mak, and Alberto Savoia were there; wish I could have been too. Later: the second installment is up now too. Still ...
Rising Stars of Research
Thursday, March 27th, 2008UBC, UVic, and SFU are hosting this year's "Rising Stars of Research" showcase on August 21-23. Its poster competition is a chance for undergraduates to show off their research in Health Sciences, Biochemistry & Cellular Biology, Natural Resources & the Environment, Life Sciences & Psychology, Computational Sciences & Technology, and ...
Reality Tree
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Michael Nygard (author of Release It!) has posted his current reality tree. I should draw one; currently, it would include raccoons nesting in our attic.