One of the things that has saved me in my short stint here at Seattle is the fantastic Google Transit service. I don’t have a car, and navigating the bus schedule tables and maps in the unintuitive local transit website is a constant source of frustration.
Now, Google Transit is already available for plenty of cities [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Software development’
July 22, 2008
MyTTC.ca
July 12, 2008
Project awareness mock-ups
Jeremy Handcock, a friend and colleague from the University of Toronto, posted some pretty cool mock-ups of team awareness for software projects recently. I’d love to get to play with a tool like this, and I know I’m not the only one.
June 18, 2008
Internship at Microsoft Research
If we’ve met in person in the last few weeks you probably knew this already, but I just moved to Seattle for the summer to work on an internship at Microsoft Research. It’s a great opportunity — I’ll be working with Gina Venolia at the Human Interactions in Programming group, which consistently produces some of the best [...]
April 2, 2008
GSRS 2008 submission deadline extended
I recently posted a call for papers from the Graduate Student Research Symposium 2008. The deadline has been extended from April 4th to April 11th, giving you a convenient extra week if you were planning to submit something.
March 19, 2008
Call for Papers: Graduate Student Research Symposium 2008
The Institute for Software Research (ISR) at the University of California, Irvine, is soliciting contributions for the 2008 Graduate Student Research Symposium (GSRS).
Topics for the symposium include:
Ubiquitous and public space computing
Software architecture methods and design
Ethnographic studies of technology
Component-based software development
Information visualization
Context-aware computing
Software testing and analysis
Collaborative technologies
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Software development and maintenance
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Domestic [...]
January 18, 2008
PPIG Newsletter
The January 2008 issue of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG) has a small ’spotlight’ note on my research of software companies and scientific research groups.
It also features a very positive review of the book Beautiful Code, which I recommended in this blog as well a couple of posts ago.
December 19, 2007
Personal experience vs. Science
Greg Wilson has an interesting post regarding both the lack of evidence and the lack of regard for evidence that is prevalent in software engineering.
He mentions a commenter that says “As a working programmer I favour my own personal experiences and experimentation over academic studies…”. This widespread (though not universal) opinion makes software development one [...]
December 4, 2007
Democamp Toronto 16
We had Democamp 16 last night at the Toronto Board of Trade, and it was one of the best I’ve been to — thanks to David Crow, Jay Goldman, Joey deVilla, Leila Boujnane, and Greg Wilson for pulling it off again. Great demos by Igor Foox (on UTest, an application to help students get into [...]
November 27, 2007
Human Side of Software Engineering blog
Janice Singer, a researcher at the National Research Council of Canada, has a new blog out to discuss the human side of software engineering. I know it’ll be interesting; if you’re into this make sure to check it out.
In her latest post she announces some great news: the book she edited along with Dag Sjoberg [...]
October 31, 2007
Democamp 15 and ConceptShare
Democamp 15 took place last Monday (Oct 29) at the Great Hall of the University of Toronto’s Hart House, and I went with high expectations after hearing all that good stuff about the previous Democamp. Sadly, I had to leave early –and rather unsatisfied– before the Ignite presentations, which I was looking forward to.
My dissatisfaction [...]
