Archive for May, 2009
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
...but some of my colleagues have:
Steve Easterbrook
Rory Tulk
Jorge Aranda
Jason Montojo
Aran Donohue
Interesting stat from Carlo Ghezzi (via Steve's blog): "The attendees at the first [ICSE] conference were 80% industry and only 20% academics. This has steadily changed: the conference is now 90% academics."
Posted in Research | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
The European Commission is thinking about extending consumer protection laws to cover bugs in software. Unsurprisingly, the Business Software Alliance is opposed :-)
Posted in Uncategorized | 10 Comments »
Friday, May 15th, 2009
In the wake of Toronto's announcement that it's opening up its data comes a similar advance in Vancouver. Those of you looking for research and business opportunities as well as a chance to make the places you live more livable, dive in!
And if you're going to be a graduate or ...
Posted in Government 2.0, Student Projects | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
MIT Press has kindly given me permission to put my first book, Practical Parallel Programming, up on the web. Many of the specifics are out of date, but I think (at least, I hope) much of the discussion is still useful.
One problem, though: nobody has the electronic source for the ...
Posted in Books | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
As well as the Software Carpentry course we're running in Toronto July 13-31 this year, the Physics department is organizing a one-week Python Boot Camp July 13-17 for $375 (Canadian). Who knew we were so fashionable? :-)
Posted in Announcements, Python, Software Carpentry | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
There was a box waiting for me in the mailroom today. "Oh," I thought, "That was quick---Amazon usually takes at least a week." But it wasn't Amazon---no, it was my first five copies of Practical Programming, each in its own individual bubblewrap sleeve. W00t! And woo hoo! And don't you ...
Posted in Books, Practical Programming, Teaching | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
A couple of people have asked whether Practical Programming is suitable for high school students. The answer is yes, particularly if they're interested in science as well as programming. And of course, the Wing 101 IDE we recommend is free.
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Another book in the "Beautiful" series, this one co-edited by my former colleague Adam Goucher and Mozilla's Tim Riley, is nearing completion. It'll be listed on Amazon tomorrow, and ship in October. Congrats!
Posted in Beautiful Code | 4 Comments »
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Guelph's 9th DemoCamp is happening on Wednesday, May 13; Missisauga's first is on June 25. Tickets for Toronto's 20th, on May 25, have once again sold out before most people knew it was happening---schedule is now online.
Posted in DemoCamp | 3 Comments »
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Over on the Software Carpentry blog, I've posted some links for our summer interns that might be of general interest, mostly to do with Science 2.0, reproducible research, and the like.
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