Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
After a lot of thought, I have regretfully decided to resign as a contributing editor with Doctor Dobb's Journal. The magazine is still great reading, and Jon Erickson and his crew have been a rare pleasure to work with, but I simply don't have the time to keep up any ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Via several people: Phil Gyford has drawn the relationships between the various web applications that own his life. If a class diagram or a call diagram looked like this, most of us would say "ew", but somehow, when the pieces are distributed so that they're not under any one developer's ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Via Paul Lu (who is coaching the University of Alberta's team), a nice writeup on the teams competing in this year's Cluster Challenge:
...teams are made of...six of undergraduate students, a supervising professor and a partnering HPC vendor. The students will architect a machine with the support of their respective vendor ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Via Science in the Open, a call for expressions of interest in running a research project on how Web 2.0 tools are changing scientific practice. Given the timelines (EoI's on November 3, project to start in December) it'll be hard to get a proposal in, but it'll be interesting to ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Via Cameron Neylon, a workshop in London in November on finding and re-using open scientific resources. Wish I could go...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Mike Gunderloy has yet another great post, this time on how to contribute to Rails.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Over at O'Reilly, Brady Forrest has a roundup of 10 Ignite events from around the world. We've been talking about changes to the DemoCamp format; maybe we should just open it up to either ignites or demos, and let the crowd decide?
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Diomidis Spinellis posted last week about Tokeneer, a National Security Agency case study carried out by UK software firm Praxis of "...how to develop zero-defect code in a cost-effective manner". Problem is, Diomidis found something that looked a lot like a bug, and his suspicions have now been confirmed.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
One of my new grad students just mailed this around:
In the interest of fostering a better, more closely connected learning community with a vested interest in the academic well-being of all participants, I have installed a new device in my cubicle. This device shall be known as the Thesis Hat. ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
In amongst a bunch of programming books, I also found time this summer to read a few for fun, like the latest in the Temeraire series. The two I enjoyed most were Felix Gilman's debut novel Thunderer, and Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road. The former is a match for ...
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