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Which languages should you be familiar with for a career in web programming?

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:04:12 +0000

While doing some research for my latest teaching job, I had reason to find out which are the most widely-used server-side languages used for web programming. The information provided by what seems to be the best source (although there are hardly many of them) gave some surprising results. I knew that PHP was popular, but […]

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Planet FLOSS Rides Again

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:07:35 +0000

I have maintained a blog about my work in FLOSS (and other avenues I’ve explored more recently) for several years now, in two or three different incarnations. For much of that time, I was one of many bloggers syndicated on Planet FLOSS Research, a website that brought together a number of blogs all on the […]

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Saros @ ICSE (Again!)

Fri, 20 May 2011 08:26:36 +0000

Saros and the Freie Universität Berlin will once again be at the premier venue for software engineering research this year. ICSE 2011 takes place in Hawaii. The organisers are now recognising plug-in development as a legitimate and distinct area of concern in software engineering. If you’re lucky enough to be there yourself, go along to […]

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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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Poll results: Most used version control systems in Eclipse

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:30:27 +0000

The poll has been closed. After over 100 votes, Git has emerged as the winner, although not resoundingly so. The only notable “other” was ClearCase with about 6% of the vote. The final results table is below. Git 35% CVS 24% Mercurial 22% Other 12% Perforce 5% Bazaar 2% Thanks to all those who took […]

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Poll: What version control system do you use with Eclipse?

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:44:31 +0000

It was so much fun using the poll technology last time, I thought I would try again. You may be familiar with Saros — our plug-in which provides distributed collaborative editing in Eclipse — and you may even know that Saros now features version control system (VCS) integration, so that all participants can work directly […]

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An Open Source Eco-System?

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:48:17 +0000

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) […]

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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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