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Pursuing Code Simplicity – Does Dr. Dobbs Miss the Point?

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:43:08 +0000

This article in Dr. Dobbs claims an obsession with code simplicity exists among some (i.e. agile) programmers. It refers to that old received hacker wisdom that any fool can write complex code, but it takes real talent to write simple code. The author attacks this point of view, saying that in reality some problems are […]

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Doing the Rounds

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:10:06 +0000

(This is an old draft article that I rediscovered.) A while ago, while obtaining my regular fix of Ben Goldacre’s pronouncements over at the Bad Science blog, something Ben had had cause briefly to explain lodged into my mind. In a mere couple of sentences, Ben explained what a “grand round” is in the world […]

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Kent Beck Meets Saros

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:58:37 +0000

On Friday 19th, a few colleagues and I had a very pleasant Skype chat with Kent Beck. He had been trying to get our tool Saros working, so he could pair program JUnit with his fellow authors, but came stuck on a couple of networking issues. So, we conducted a Saros session with him, helped […]

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Beginner's Guide to Saros

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:03:54 +0000

The kind fellows at the Planet Eclipse community have consented to aggregate this blog as a resource for the dissemination of information on Saros. They have recommended that I author a post to serve as a beginner’s guide. To that end, I’ve put together a new static page about Saros. Enjoy.

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Saros Becomes Evermore Insanely Great

Mon, 31 May 2010 10:17:29 +0000

On Friday, the Software Engineering Workgroup of Freie Universität delivered the latest release of Saros, the Eclipse plug-in that enables you to use the editor to perform distributed party programming. Version 10.5.28 brings you, in addition to a host of bugfixes, yet another new feature you won’t find in competing products (how are liking this […]

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Saros @ ICSE

Fri, 14 May 2010 07:08:24 +0000

ICSE 2010 is over. Those lucky enough to have gone have had their reward of first dibs on the material presented, so now I can present a brief summary of the paper that we in the Software Engineering group at Freie Universität produced for that conference. The paper is both a way of announcing Saros […]

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(Not) Going to ICSE

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:49:43 +0000

My colleagues and I recently had a paper accepted to the CHASE workshop (Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering) at ICSE 2010. The programme details are now available. ICSE 2010 is in Cape Town, South Africa this year, which makes me all the more sad that I can’t go. The presentation of the paper […]

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New Features Take Saros from Strength to Strength

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:04:50 +0000

The latest version of Saros (10.3.26), released last Friday, was quite an important one, because it provides the application with features that vastly reduce the need for other complimentary applications. In short, the Saros feature set has grown so as to make it a largely self-contained application. Let me furnish you with a brief guide […]

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