Jeremy Is Seeking Information
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Jeremy Handcock has posted a nice summary of his recent reading in information seeking. It's a fascinating topic, and some of these papers are really intriguing.
Archive for April, 2008
Jeremy Handcock has posted a nice summary of his recent reading in information seeking. It's a fascinating topic, and some of these papers are really intriguing.
An Interview with Donald Knuth
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Interesting interview with Donald Knuth (highlights here): With the caveat that there’s no reason anybody should care about the opinions of a computer scientist/mathematician like me regarding software development, let me just say that almost everything I’ve ever heard associated with the term "extreme programming" sounds like exactly the wrong way ...
“I Would Never Have Believed…”
Monday, April 28th, 2008It was a beautiful day yesterday in Toronto---warm and sunny, just perfect for strolling around the neighborhood and looking for a new home. And for stopping in at the baby goods store a couple of blocks from our current house to pick up a new pair of shoes for Maddie ...
Adam on “Schools”
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Nice post from Adam Goucher about schools of thought (and practice) in software development and testing. It's worth following the links, esp. to Pettichord's presentation.
DrProject 3.0 Schema
Friday, April 25th, 2008One of the ways I can tell that DrProject is getting better is that its database schema is getting cleaner. I've posted earlier versions from December 2006 (which was 1.0 something or other), Version 1.2 from early 2007, and the first Elixir-based version from July 2007. Today's is much tidier, ...
Software Engineering Links
Friday, April 25th, 2008Mark Doernhoefer writes a regular column for SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes called "Surfing the Web for Software Engineering Notes". I hadn't realized that all his links are online (though without his commentary, which is the real value add). Useful...
Design Never Ends
Friday, April 25th, 2008You're never done designing a useful system, because if it is actually useful, people are always coming up with new requirements for it. For example, I've been using DrProject to manage my software engineering course this term: the class notes are all in the wiki (so that students can ...
Catch-22 / The First Three Minutes
Thursday, April 24th, 2008I used to write for New Scientist occasionally; now I just enjoy reading it, and no more so than when they run articles like this one, in which 17 leading scientists are asked to name a books that changed their lives, and readers are invited to submit theirs. Neat.
Student Tickets for Mesh
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008This year's Mesh Conference is coming up fast: May 21-22, here in Toronto. To add to the fun, there's meshU, "a one-day event of 12 focused workshops in three streams (design, development, management) given by those who have earned their stripes in the startup game". And the best news yet ...
Crowded House
Monday, April 21st, 2008Google announced this year's Summer of Code projects today. I'm very pleased that six students from the University of Toronto were among the recipients: Matthew Basset / Hackystat: Hackystat Sensor for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Eran Henig / Python: Python Plugin for Web-CAT Victoria Mui / GenMAPP: Automatic (Smart) Node and ...