Monthly Archives: January 2011
Saros Paints a Pretty Picture
| January 31, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
Version 11.1.28 of Saros introduces a major new feature that has been bubbling away deep in the Saros development labs for a while now: the distributed whiteboard. Fresh out of the prototype stage, the whiteboard is a fully-functioning addition to the Saros feature set. However much it works, we feel it is still largely demonstrative… read more
Manny Lehman dies
| January 14, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
Sad news. Professor Manny Lehman passed away a few weeks ago. Someone I would very much like to have met, he was the originator of the laws of software evolution, a subject which served as a foundation stone of my own PhD thesis, thus making me particularly indebted to his contributions. read more
“There are two types of people in this world…
| January 12, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Off-topic |
… those who remember floppy disks and those who don’t.” I’m a little skeptical to be honest, but if this question over at superuser.com is genuine, a new divide has opened up in the computer world that may disturb some of us who don’t rate ourselves as particularly old. The questioner asks, “What are the… read more
First Saros Release of the Year: 11.1.7
| January 10, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
Saros development has resumed normal service and last Friday made available its first release of 2011. To quote some interesting passages from the release notes: The integration of version control support (VCS) into Saros has been given its final consolidation. Developers can now collectively work on a project under version control and Saros will manage… read more
WikiLeaking Leaks into Science
| January 2, 2011 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Research methods and tools |
I have an on-going interest (as well as a stake) in how academia will advance in the digital world, where new capabilities afforded by technology force us to question the way we currently produce and distribute research works. Particular problems that have already been highlighted involve journals. One of these is the idea of the… read more
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