Archive for January, 2009
Monday, January 26th, 2009
The title says it all: Liz Blankenship (who redesigned part of DrProject last summer) is looking for a job in Seattle. Please contact her directly if you have any leads.
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
I'm at CalTech listening to physicists talk about the software side of the new Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge. One of their major headaches is the difficulty of deploying their code: a typical application has dozens of complicated modules, each with dozens or hundreds of dependencies. Their ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
An update on a previous post: here's where the last two weeks' worth of working time went. I'm including time spent sorting out the house during working hours, but not the two hours a day I spend getting to and from work (much of which I spend reading technical ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
I found Jakub Linowski's Wireframes blog last week, and have been catching up---lots of good ideas here for UI design, and more importantly, for thinking about UI design.
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Via Michael Nielsen, a guest column by Aaron Hirsh at the NY Times on "A New Kind of Big Science":
There is another way to extend our scientific reach, and I believe it can also restore some of what is lost in the process of centralization. It has been called Citizen ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
We're number N-1! We're number N-1!
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Students are working on 24 separate projects in my consulting course this term. 21 are running smoothly, which means I'm spending most of my time on the other three. On the bright side, I finally found my Hogfather DVD.
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Another of my grad students, Rory Tulk, is converging on a thesis topic: making server-side build and test safe to do when you don't trust people's code. We need to figure this out because we'd like to use continuous integration in undergrad classes, but student code is frequently malicious (usually ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Mike Gunderloy and others have announced the foundation of ActionRails, a Ruby on Rails consultancy for people who need more than "PHP with attitude". Mike gets more done in the average week than I get done in the average year; if you need serious help, they can seriously help you.
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
One of my grad students, Jason Montojo, has posted a brief description of his intended research topic: how people familiarize themselves with code bases they haven't seen before. I'm sure he'd be grateful for your thoughts...
Meanwhile, Alecia Fowler has posted a few links about tactile maps for the visually disabled. ...
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