Computer Floss » architecture http://computerfloss.com Delightful digital distractions in free/libre/open source software Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:27:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 Saros @ ICSE /2010/05/saros-icse/ /2010/05/saros-icse/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 07:08:24 +0000 http://computerfloss.wordpress.com/?p=410 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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]]> /2010/05/saros-icse/feed/ 2 Reading List /2010/05/reading-list/ /2010/05/reading-list/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 08:32:37 +0000 http://computerfloss.wordpress.com/?p=450 Some books/articles/websites etc. that I have enjoyed reading in the last few months (just to prove my interests do occasionally stretch beyond computers) and which I can recommend: Books Letters to a Young Contrarian (Christopher Hitchens). Just seeing the title of this book was enough by itself to compel me to buy it; memories of […]

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]]> /2010/05/reading-list/feed/ 1 CSMR – Day 2 /2009/03/csmr-day-2/ /2009/03/csmr-day-2/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:56:13 +0000 http://floss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/?p=101 CSMR 2009 soldiers on. Today’s keynote was delivered by Tibor Gyimothy which looked at software metrics from the developer’s point of view. He presented the results of a study where developers were surveyed for their opinions on various metrics. The developers were divided based upon such attributes as experience, platform knowledge (Java, C/C++, C#, SQL), […]

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]]> /2009/03/csmr-day-2/feed/ 0 CSMR – Day 1 /2009/03/csmr-day-1/ /2009/03/csmr-day-1/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:49:59 +0000 http://floss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/?p=86 Guten tag. How embarrassing. The weather in Kaiserslautern is bad, I’m an Englishman…. and I don’t have an umbrella. But at least the Fraunhofer IESE Centre is a wonderful environment. Which leads me to quickly express my admiration of the German approach to technical research and development. Briefly, there are four “actors” in their setup: […]

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