Monthly Archives: September 2010
Reading List II
| September 27, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Off-topic |
Once again, clearing up some enjoyable reading of the past few months: Books Thomas Paine. Rights of Man. One of the original libertarians, a term that has pretty much lost its original meaning these days. The core ideas that came forth from his work, radical at the time, are simple. That rights are inherent in… read more
Should Educators Use More Visualisations?
| September 13, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Opinion |
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Not so many years ago, I was one of the people in the education system, spending much of the working day being lectured to. Being a geek, most of my subjects involved mathematical, scientific or computing related material, which is often complex and requires (from me at least) intense objective mental effort to understand them,… read more
An Open Source Eco-System?
| September 6, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Research |
To summarise the prior writings from my doctoral thesis: I’ve shown how there are both notable differences and similarities between certain measures of FLOSS repositories (such as number of contributors attracted, rate of contributions, complexity control work, etc.) The pattern of similarities and differences that emerged clearly differentiated one group (containing Debian, GNOME, and KDE)… read more
We Have a Winner
| September 1, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Off-topic |
Not many votes (about 20 or so at time of reading), but Google App Engine seems to be a big favourite for Eclipse users, gathering half the votes by itself. Looks like I have some reading up on Google App Engine to do… read more
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