Mother of the Year
May 11th, 2009
Sadie Lewis wins “Mother of the Year“. Says one interviewee, “If it weren’t for moms like Sadie, we’d never get bananas or snuggle.”
Archive
Archive for May, 2009
Making Is Thinking
May 9th, 2009
The aphorism in the title is taken from the introduction to Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman. Later, he says:
Modern education fears repetitive learning as mind-numbing. Afraid of boring children, avid to present ever-different stimulation, the enlightened teacher may avoid routine—but thus deprives children of the experience of studying their own ingrained practice and modulating it from within… Skill development depends on how repetition is organized… As skill expands, the capacity to sustain repetition increases…
How does this apply to programming? How should it apply?
How Scientists Use Computers: Survey Part 2
May 9th, 2009
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Following up on last fall’s survey of how scientists use computers, I’ve emailed out a follow-up — details are on the Software Carpentry blog. Your input would be very welcome.
Someone Should Be Sued
May 7th, 2009
Summary from Bruce Schneier about Virginia prescription data being held to ransom. No way to know how many times this has been done by professionals, since victims aren’t required to disclose. Wonder if the IT people who let this happen will be sued, and whether it will prompt changes in the law…
Can the Web Save Us?
May 7th, 2009
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Nice short article from Jon Udell about what libraries are in the era of the web (among other things).
How to Behave at a Conference
May 7th, 2009
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Via Steve Easterbrook, some useful advice. Nine days ’til ICSE…
A Fresh Crop of Summer Interns
May 7th, 2009
As one term ends, so another begins, and we’re very excited to have another good team of summer interns this year:
- Mike Conley, Severin Gehwolf, Amanda Manarin, and Nelle Varoquaux are working on OLM for Karen Reid
- Ainsley Lawson, Samar Sabie, Sarah Strong, and Maria Yancheva are doing climate change projects for Steve Easterbrook
- Eran Henig, Bill Konrad, Phyliss Lee, and Florian Shkurti are working on the Django-based rewrite of DrProject for me, with Ashwin Bhat, Leigh Honeywell, and a few others helping out
- Blaise Alleyne is doing a Google Summer of Code project with Drupal
We’re kicking things off on Monday the 11th—stay tuned for progress reports.
Instructor Review Copies
May 6th, 2009
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If you’re teaching a computer science course, and would like a review copy of Practical Programming, please send email to support@pragprog.com with:
- Instructor name
- Institution name
- Course name
- Course size
- Number of times offered per year
- Whether you’d like paper or ebook (save trees!)
A TED for Toronto
May 6th, 2009
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Tyler Turnbull and Paul Crowe are organizing a TED-like event for Toronto this September — progress reports on their blog, and of course volunteers would be welcome.
Spot the Code Sprint
May 6th, 2009
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