Posts Tagged by Freie Universität
Saros benefits from lots of new eyeballs
| October 21, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
The latest version of Saros (11.9.30) is now available. This is the first version released under my new working arrangement, so despite my reduced capacity to co-ordinate development, Saros continues to live. As the saying goes, “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” For the last couple of months, Saros has benefitted from over a… read more
It’s all change around here…
| October 5, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
Updates have been slow around here for a while, but there’s a reason for that. My spare time in recent days has been soaked up preparing for my career change, which I’ll explain. I’ve become a freelancer. To be more specific: a freelance IT professional providing consultancy, training and writing services. It’s quite a change… read more
Saros @ ICSE (Again!)
| May 20, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Research, Saros |
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… read more
Christopher Özbek and his Flying Colours
| December 19, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
My friend and sometime colleague, Christopher Özbek, presented his final PhD defence on Friday at Freie Universität Berlin. I am pleased to report that he was passed with flying colours, being awarded the highest possible grade (summa cum laude?). His dissertation addresses the matter of how to innovate within FLOSS projects, that is, how to… read more
Saros: Distributed Editing in Eclipse Just Keeps Getting Better
| October 4, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
Saros, the best plug-in to give you distributed collaborative editing in Eclipse, continues to improve. In our latest release (10.10.01) the Saros Team has provided a lot of bugfixes and improvements. Visually the layout has changed a little. Using Saros is now so adaptable that we’ve had to group the growing number of menu items… read more
Saros Becomes Evermore Insanely Great
| May 31, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Agile methods, Saros |
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… read more
Saros @ ICSE
| May 14, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Agile methods, Research |
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… read more
Ah, I've Been Expecting You…
| January 14, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
Welcome to the new location for my blog. Until recently this blog was hosted by the University of Lincoln whilst I obtained my PhD. Now that it’s completed and I’ve moved on, I’ve moved it here. Coincidentally, we in the Software Engineering Working Group at the Free University of Berlin are in the process of… read more
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