Monthly Archives: January 2010
New Saros Release: 10.1.29
| January 29, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
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Saros continues to be improved, stabilised and fine-tuned with another release: 10.1.29. To quote the changelog: In this current release we have focused our efforts on performance improvements and bug-fixing. The performance of the invitation process is now much improved. Install and update from Eclipse: http://dpp.sf.net/update Many thanks to users who participated in our survey… read more
A Glimpse of the Academic Future?
| January 22, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Off-topic |
Is this the future of how academic publications will be evaluated in the future? http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/ A technical solution powered by open access and spontaneous collaborative efforts, which reduces the focus from the containing journal/proceedings down to the more important thing: the article itself. Could this approach even remove the need for a journal in the… read more
The Penguin and the Gnu
| January 21, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Computer Floss series |
Another episode of Computer FLOSS, a YouTube series aimed at educating about FLOSS. This episode is about two flagships of the FLOSS movement (GNU and Linux), how they came to be and how they relate. The Penguin and the Gnu Yes, all right. No series about free and open source software would be complete without… read more
The Return of Padams!
| January 14, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
Still talking about blogs, Paul Adams has re-appeared on the blogosphere! I knew he’d come back, and, like Kylie Minogue, he’s reinvented himself (right down to the tiny hotpants). Check him out on his new blog. read more
Ah, I've Been Expecting You…
| January 14, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
Welcome to the new location for my blog. Until recently this blog was hosted by the University of Lincoln whilst I obtained my PhD. Now that it’s completed and I’ve moved on, I’ve moved it here. Coincidentally, we in the Software Engineering Working Group at the Free University of Berlin are in the process of… read more
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