Computer Floss » tools http://computerfloss.com Delightful digital distractions in free/libre/open source software Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:54:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 A FLOSS Research Toolbox /2009/08/a-floss-research-toolbox/ /2009/08/a-floss-research-toolbox/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:09:11 +0000 http://floss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/?p=203 It is remarkable how, when I look through my box of FLOSS research tools, so many of them are pre-existing tools written by others. In the toolbox (or more precisely, in the directory called “tools”) there are also many self-authored programs or glue code, usually put together in a scripting language, but nevertheless the overall […]

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]]> /2009/08/a-floss-research-toolbox/feed/ 0 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 In The Beginning… /2009/01/in-the-beginning/ /2009/01/in-the-beginning/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:03:40 +0000 http://learninglab.lincoln.ac.uk/blogs/kbeecher/?p=7 Why write a blog? Well, why not. It seems like everyone else is. I’ve been racking my brains to decide what I have to blog, or rather what is interesting enough to share with people. My field is computers; specifically research. I’ve been spending a few years researching free/open source software now, and I think […]

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