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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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The Catalyst Effect in FLOSS Repositories

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:56:07 +0000

In the course of my PhD studies, I proposed that when a project makes a transition from one repository to another, you could expect to see significant changes to a project’s evolutionary characteristics. Indeed, I covered this in earlier posts, discussing the transition from SourceForge to Debian. Here, we saw that the number of developers […]

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Continuing the Empirical Results: Anti-Regressive Work

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:34:35 +0000

It has been a while since I wrote about my research into FLOSS, for which there are a few reasons. When last I wrote I was approaching my PhD defence, and for the whole PhD process to come to an end I had to wait until January this year, when my thesis was officially approved. […]

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