Archive for November, 2008
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
The Software Carpentry course site is still getting a fair bit of traffic, although readership is definitely tailing off:
I'm hoping to run an intensive three-week version of the course in June 2009 in Toronto (details to follow); hope I can find time between now and then to finish wikifying the ...
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Unlikely I'll go (no money), but Software Craftsmanship 2009 (in London on February 26) looks pretty cool.
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
Via David Crow (who has comments on it as well), an article by Joey deVilla on the Fall 2008 VeloCity Project Exhibition at the University of Waterloo. VeloCity is a dorm reserved for would-be entrepreneurs, complete with a boardroom, a mobile device lab, high-bandwidth wifi, large flatscreens, etc. The ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Tuesday: go to train station to buy a round-trip ticket to Kitchener. "Does the train have wireless?" "Let me check... yes, that train has wireless."
Wednesday: get on the train, turn on laptop, try to connect to the Internet. 24 hours of wireless for $8.95 plus taxes sounds pretty good: I'll ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
After a bit of hiatus caused by getting married (to me) and moving house (with me --- and yes, we're still married), Sadie is warming up StreetKnit for another season. You knit, they give it to the homeless to help them get through the winter, and the world is a ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Second International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Co-located with ICSE 2009 - Vancouver, Canada
http://www.cs.ua.edu/~SECSE09
Overview
This workshop is concerned with the development of:
Scientific software applications, where the focus is on directly solving scientific problems. These applications include, but are not limited to, large parallel models/simulations ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Via The Great Beyond:
The US National Academy of Sciences has created an initiative that will link TV and movie directors with scientists and engineers to incorporate more accurate science content into entertainment.
Press release here, web site here. That would be a cool job...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
A lot of it seems obvious now, but it really did change the world...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
One of our project students has a weird problem with Rails --- if you have an answer (weird or otherwise), we'd like to hear from you.
I want to send an AJAX request to the server using POST.
Rails is supposed to handle parameter passing, placing all parameters in the params hash.
When ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
The Computer Science department at the University of Toronto is featured in a recent episode of "Byte Club". I can hear the hippos whispering...
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