Blog Archive 2011
2011-12-31: The Fire Last Time
2011-12-31: Some Responses to Some Comments
2011-12-30: Fork, Merge, and Share
2011-12-24: What Success Looks Like Five Years Out
2011-12-24: Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning
2011-12-21: Well, *I* Think the Gray Makes Me Look Distinguished
2011-12-20: What I've Learned So Far
2011-12-20: It Just Keeps On Hurting
2011-12-19: Na Shledanou
2011-12-18: Looking for Grassroots Teaching Groups
2011-12-16: PowerPoint + Visio, but in Javascript?
2011-12-13: Research In Progress: How Mozilla Builds Software
2011-12-10: A decade of research and development on program animation: The Jeliot experience
2011-12-07: How to Teach Webcraft and Programming to Free-Range Students
2011-12-06: Lest We Forget
2011-12-05: Empirical Software Engineering's Greatest Hits
2011-12-04: Online vs. Face-to-Face Pedagogical Code Reviews: An Empirical Comparison
2011-12-02: Iron Triangles Are Great --- Everyone Should Have One
2011-12-02: The FCS1: A Language Independent Assessment of CS1 Knowledge
2011-12-02: And Then... A Preview
2011-12-01: Direct Reports and Self-Directed Learning
2011-11-30: Where's My Shell?
2011-11-30: Good News and Bad News
2011-11-30: The Greatest Story Never Told
2011-11-29: Rewind
2011-11-29: Three Short Thoughts
2011-11-27: Day 27 of Movember 2011
2011-11-18: Accessible to All?
2011-11-18: Show Me the Data
2011-11-18: Quantifying Installation Costs
2011-11-14: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back?
2011-11-14: Here's What I've Learned So Far
2011-11-14: Surviving the Tsunami
2011-11-14: Clearing Up Code
2011-11-10: Vulgarity Isn't Honesty (or, Who's Welcome Here?)
2011-11-08: Happy Birthday
2011-11-08: The Ladder of Abstraction and the Future of Online Teaching
2011-11-08: The Best vs. the Good
2011-11-02: The 1970s Called...
2011-11-01: Well That Certainly Got Some Attention
2011-10-31: D is for Digital
2011-10-29: Just Say No
2011-10-24: Looking for a Writing Space in Toronto
2011-10-24: Demand Fair Play for Fauja Singh
2011-10-22: Research Without Walls
2011-10-22: Three Empirical Studies From ESEC/FSE'11
2011-10-22: Three Results, Many Definitions
2011-10-21: Evidence? We Don't Care About No Stinking Evidence
2011-10-21: What I Like Doing
2011-10-20: My Aspect Ratio Seems to Have Changed
2011-10-19: American Scientist Article on Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
2011-10-14: The Science Code Manifesto's Five C's
2011-10-11: Running Partners
2011-10-06: Insufficient Purity Considered Harmful
2011-10-05: D Is For Digital
2011-10-05: Revamping This Site
2011-09-27: A Buddhist For Three Weeks
2011-09-22: And Then...
2011-09-22: We Will Soon Have News
2011-09-22: Slightly Narcisissistic
2011-09-22: Plus Ca Change...
2011-09-20: If Only This Thing Had An Engine!
2011-09-20: I'm Not Normally Lost for Words
2011-09-19: Past and Future
2011-09-17: The Simplest Web That Could Possibly Work
2011-09-16: Extensible Programming: A New Hope
2011-09-13: Progress Of A Sort
2011-09-09: Lovecraft and the Tea Party
2011-09-08: What Happens When You Install Something?
2011-09-07: Ladies Learning Code #2: HTML and CSS on Sept 24
2011-09-05: Don't Touch My Code!
2011-09-05: Where is the Puck Going to Be?
2011-09-02: Teaching Security to Scientists
2011-09-01: Renting Cycles Has Never Been Easier (For Some Definition of 'Easier')
2011-08-31: Comparing the Defect Reduction Benefits of Code Inspection and Test-Driven Development
2011-08-25: AOSA Volume 2 Roster
2011-08-25: Three Paradigms (or, Why LLC Should Teach Javascript)
2011-08-24: And We'll Change The World
2011-08-24: What Michael Feathers Thinks You Should Read
2011-08-24: Is Transactional Programming Actually Easier?
2011-08-23: Jack Layton: 1950-2011
2011-08-22: Code Coverage in Lernanta
2011-08-21: First Draft
2011-08-21: Today Was a Good Day
2011-08-19: You're Going to Show This to People When I'm Grown Up, Aren't You?
2011-08-19: As Excited as a Bumble Bee in a Squash Patch
2011-08-18: Spelling, Fairness, and JavaScript
2011-08-17: Demos Reinforce Errors, and Confusion is Good
2011-08-17: Three Empirical Evaluations of UML
2011-08-09: An Empirical Study of Build Maintenance Effort
2011-08-08: Introducing Programming a Different Way
2011-08-06: Muriel (Jo) Campbell: 1930-2011
2011-08-06: Learning Lernanta: We're Live!
2011-08-04: Computing in Physics 101: What We're Doing Wrong
2011-07-31: Added to Wish List
2011-07-29: Team!
2011-07-29: Cheese!
2011-07-26: Usability Implications of Requiring Parameters in Objects' Constructors
2011-07-24: My OSCON'11 Hall of Fame
2011-07-22: Software Carpentry in HPCWire
2011-07-20: The Case of Abinit
2011-07-20: Material from Newcastle Workshop Now Available
2011-07-20: How Much Do You Need?
2011-07-20: Wait, Not That Bit!
2011-07-19: Ladies Learning Code: JavaScript (Toronto, August 6)
2011-07-18: Debugging in the (Very) Large
2011-07-15: The Finger Is Not The Test
2011-07-13: Learning Lernanta
2011-07-12: Grown-Up Languages
2011-07-11: Architecture of Open Source Applications Webinars July 13 and 20
2011-07-10: Stanford Course Went Well
2011-07-09: Cross-Country Student Projects This Fall
2011-07-09: Home Again
2011-07-07: The Confounding Effect of Class Size on the Validity of Object-Oriented Metrics
2011-07-01: Mentioned in Nature Methods
2011-06-30: Let's Go to the Whiteboard
2011-06-29: It Will Never Work in Theory
2011-06-26: Architecture Stats
2011-06-20: Doing the Math
2011-06-15: Mostly Pleased, But...
2011-06-14: A New Look
2011-06-13: It Shouldn't Still Hurt This Much
2011-06-12: "Daddy, What's Wrong?"
2011-06-12: If You're Going to Teach an Undergrad Intro to Software Engineering...
2011-06-11: Now Available on Kindle
2011-06-10: Hermes FTW
2011-06-07: Blueprints Are Not Architecture
2011-06-07: Practical Computing for Everyone (not just biologists)
2011-06-04: Thanks, Google!
2011-06-04: Programming for Scientists at Newcastle University: June 20, 2011
2011-06-03: Refactoring Yahoo! Pipes
2011-06-02: T Plus 10 Days
2011-05-31: 85K
2011-05-29: My New Job
2011-05-29: Coming Up Next (We Hope)
2011-05-28: You Doesn't Exist
2011-05-28: So What's It Like Publishing a Book Yourself?
2011-05-28: What's There Instead
2011-05-27: It's Not Theory vs. Practice, It's Two Solitudes
2011-05-26: How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
2011-05-23: "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" is Now Available
2011-05-21: Why Does Flask Lose My Post Data When It Redirects?
2011-05-20: How Do Actual Software Engineers Perceive Software Engineering Research?
2011-05-19: Beta Book
2011-05-18: Catalog Models Like Views and Controllers
2011-05-16: Greg's New Gig
2011-05-14: More Interested in the Asides
2011-05-13: End of an Era
2011-05-13: Damn the Torpedoes (but I could use some help navigating)
2011-05-06: AOSA Is At The Printer's
2011-05-06: The Architecture of Open Source Applications
2011-04-28: Just a Couple of Weeks Away
2011-04-26: Competence
2011-04-25: Sunday
2011-04-22: In Praise of Street Fighting
2011-04-18: Holding Up a Mirror
2011-04-12: Random Hacks of Kindness June 4-5 2011
2011-04-11: Prototyping
2011-04-09: By The Numbers
2011-04-08: Table of Contents
2011-04-06: It's Complicated
2011-04-03: An Ounce vs. A Pound
2011-03-31: Harder Than It Should Be
2011-03-30: Practical Computing for Scientists at Stanford
2011-03-26: And I'm on a Horse
2011-03-24: A Better Way to Teach Programming to Scientists
2011-03-22: You'll Need a Large Screen
2011-03-22: I'd Settle for 0.1%
2011-03-21: Videos of Autumn School Lectures
2011-03-20: The Kind of Job I Want
2011-03-18: 12 Days Ago
2011-03-17: Questions and Answers
2011-03-16: More Changes
2011-03-16: Graph Layout, Models vs. Views, and Computational Thinking
2011-03-15: A Season of Changes
2011-03-15: Twenty Questions (Minus Two)
2011-03-12: Dying Breeds
2011-03-12: What To Demand
2011-03-11: Musing About Reorganization
2011-03-09: Who's Cribbing Who?
2011-03-09: High Tech That Looks Low Tech
2011-03-07: Literate Programming
2011-03-01: Tuple Spaces (or, Good Ideas Don't Always Win)
2011-02-25: We Got a Mention in Comm. ACM
2011-02-24: An Easy Place to Start: Systems Programming
2011-02-22: What Better Looks Like
2011-02-20: Sweaters
2011-02-18: Giving Ourselves Permission
2011-02-17: Reddit on Scientific Programming
2011-02-16: I Want Their Software
2011-02-15: Top Ten Why Nots
2011-02-11: If I Was 19...
2011-02-11: Ground Up, in No Particular Order
2011-02-09: DemoCamp 28 on Feb 22
2011-02-09: Let's Talk
2011-02-08: What Computational Science Means to Me
2011-01-28: StreetKnit on Canada AM
2011-01-27: Bootcamp
2011-01-26: Thinking Like the Web
2011-01-26: The Case Against Peer Review
2011-01-26: Software Carpentry Sprint in July
2011-01-23: A Week of Public Accountability
2011-01-21: Scientists Aren't Stupid: Software Is
2011-01-20: AOSA Update
2011-01-20: MIT Rethinking OpenCourseWare
2011-01-20: How to Cite Software Carpentry
2011-01-19: Making System Administrators' Lives Easier
2011-01-17: Demographics (part two)
2011-01-16: Demographics (part one)
2011-01-14: The Hacker Within
2011-01-14: Our Funding Pitch
2011-01-13: Jon Udell in Toronto Jan 18 2011
2011-01-10: McConnell Responds to Bossavit
2011-01-10: Software Carpentry in One Picture and Five Words
2011-01-06: Gibson's Law in the Small
2011-01-06: What I Learned From Software Carpentry
2011-01-05: Cognitive Dissonance
2011-01-05: We Are the Frogs