And this week:
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Tomorrow is Nick Jamil’s last day with us—he’ss done a great job of building a variable-speed ticketing system for DrProject, but now he’s got to put all that energy into getting married 
To wrap up, he has put two posts on his blog:
It’s been a pleasure working with him; I hope I get the chance to do so again. Happy nuptials, dude.
Tuesday was Kosta’s turn; today was Victoria Mui’s. Having spent most of the last week and a half reading source code, she got up a few minutes ago and gave a quick talk about her Google Summer of Code project at the Cytoscape retreat. I was impressed once again with how well she presented her work — our students do us proud.
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The Nerd Girls are supposed to be on the Today show tomorrow (Friday July 18) — anyone have details?
One Big Lab has a short review of LabMeeting.com, a tool to help PhD students organize papers they’ve read, discover new ones, share lab procedures, and so on. It was built by physics students; similar systems, like Ologeez and OpenWetWare, were built by geneticists and cell biologists respectively. I can’t help but think that we (computer scientists) should be building stuff like this for them, so that they can spend their time making tiny little black holes and intelligent viruses and stuff. It isn’t “just implementation”: there are lots of interesting problems in user interfaces, and as soon as you get into things like reproducible research there’s a ton of publishable work in requirements engineering to be done to figure out what systems ought to be doing. *sigh*
…but mostly fun: DemoCamp 18 was last night, and as Lillian’s review says, it went pretty well. The venue was too small, and as she said, some of the off-color humor was a little tiresome, but it was good to see such a strong turnout from U of T, and Kosta Zabashta (with Victoria Mui’s help) did a great job of showing off his integration of DrProject and IRC. Special thanks to the sponsors, and Willis Haviland Carrier for the luxury of modern air conditioning.
The next ‘camp will probably be in September — look forward to seeing you all there.
(Image from Thomas Purves.)
Mike Gunderloy says, “When I look at my resume, I’m amazed at the number of careers I’ve survived.” To which I can only reply, “What doesn’t destroy me makes me really tired.”
…you’d probably know the names of a lot of up-and-coming bands—it would be part of your job. If you’re reading this blog, though, it’s more likely that you’re planning a career in high tech, so it’s fair to ask: how many up-and-coming companies in your area can you name? Backbone Magazine has just posted their PICK 20 list; I know thirteen of them, and as soon as this post is finished, I’m going to have a look at the other seven.
Kosta Zabashta is looking for input on one more feature for DrProject IRC integration before his demo on Tuesday. You could win a prize! (Not from him or me, just… you know, generally, there’s nothing stopping you from winning something from someone…)
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