Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Via David Humphrey: a two-day workshop on developing for and with Mozilla will be held at Seneca College in Toronto on September 15-16, 2008. The first day is meant for non-Mozilla devs who want to see how they can leverage the platform, contribute, or otherwise learn about Mozilla tech for ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Via Michael Nygard:
O'Reilly is creating a new line of "community-authored" books. One of them is called "97 Thing Every Software Architect Should Know"... All of the "97 Things" books will be created by wiki, with the best entries being selected from all the wiki contributions.
The whole wiki makes for interesting ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
The last of our summer students finishes at the end of this week; here's a few links to close off another great season:
Dan Servos has finished his grade statistics visualization plugin for Moodle.
Victoria Mui has been having fun with springs --- her screencast is here.
Eva Wong wishes she had a ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Accumulated while on holiday---funny how sometimes I used this blog as an external strap-on memory pack.
There's a workshop on "Infrastructure for Research in Collaborative Software Engineering" atFSE in Atlanta this November. Its aim is "...sharing experiences in evaluating and using open-source, academic, and commercial choices to conduct research, ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
...and occasionally finds it frustrating.
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Pictures say it better than words ever could:
Maddie in the Back Yard
Feeding the Fish with Mummy and Grampa
In the Big Chair
On the Beach
Sadie Looks Good in Hats
The Bride Makes Her Entrance
Love, Honor...
Cutting the Cake
The Sopranos Version
Families Together
Three Mothers
Uh, What Just Happened?
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
John's summary of our discussion about what to teach scientists about reproducible research if they already believe it's a good thing, and want to start doing it reminded me that I never posted about the Provenance Challenge. It has been run twice so far; each time, authors of tools to ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
I finally got a summary of graduate students feedback on the consulting course I ran this past winter. It was pretty good overall---on a scale of 1-5, the responses were:
How much background is required to successfully complete this course?
None
Lots
2.6
How easy was it to obtain details/background needed to supplement the ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The summer is coming to an end, so students are posting screencasts:
Matthew Basset: Team Foundation Server plugin for Hackystat.
Qi Yang: Web-CAT.
Ming Chow and Wenbing Li: FlareFlow SQL Query Builder.
Previously posted:
Nicole Allard: feature diagrams plugin for Eclipse.
Nick Jamil: a customizable ticketing system for DrProject.
It's been another great summer---I'm proud to have ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
OpenWetware has posted notes from SciFoo. I'm sorry I missed it; looking forward to "Science in the 21st Century" even more than before.
Those notes pointed me at the Electronic Geophysical Year declaration. I agree in principle, but think that something like the Open Source Initiative's "certified open" badge would be ...
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