Monthly Archives: October 2009

I’m hopeful, too–PatchCulture.org

By david.humphrey | Published: October 30, 2009
My friend Mike Hoye has done something important for the web: It’s small, just a start, but the world doesn’t work this way yet and I think a lot more of it should. PatchCulture.org is live. Might work, might not. I’m hopeful. This is exciting for me because it’s the realization of the thinking I wrote about [...]
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“Who are your peers?” A response to Joel Spolsky

By david.humphrey | Published: October 28, 2009
A number of colleagues have pointed me at Joel Spolsky’s latest post, Capstone projects and time management.  In it, Joel argues for the inclusion of real-world projects in computer science programs and laments the near universal dismissal by (top) schools of any grounding in things like version control, debuggers, testing, etc.  [...]
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How to go to a tech event (as a student)

By david.humphrey | Published: October 26, 2009
This week there are a whole bunch of open source events in the city, one of which is our own FSOSS.  Over the years Chris and I have been involved in running this and many other tech events at Seneca.  In that time we’ve had hundreds (literally) of industry and open source people come and [...]
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Disentangling what, when, and how

By david.humphrey | Published: October 25, 2009
The life of a child is full of milestones.  As a parent you are always aware of the progress, or lack thereof, with regard to any of them.  One of the most important lessons I’ve learned as a parent is that what, how, and when are not something to which you should give equal attention.  [...]
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Catching up on DXR blogging

By david.humphrey | Published: October 23, 2009
<@taras> you should blog that < andrew> you should blog more about that project My students have a first release due today by midnight, and all day I’ve been watching attachments go up on bugs and demos getting posted online.  It’s been really cool to watch how far many of them have gotten with their 0.1 release [...]
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FSOSS 2009 is next Friday Oct 30

By david.humphrey | Published: October 21, 2009
Chris has just posted about the final set of presentations for FSOSS 2009, happening next Friday October 30.  This year, after more years of running or working on FSOSS than I can remember, I’m going to finally get to attend and participate as a speaker.  Taras and I will be wowing the crowd with talk [...]
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Unboxing the 2410: apples, cables, welding, seed, and books

By david.humphrey | Published: October 20, 2009
I bought a new monitor.  Last Christmas my wonderful wife gave me a present: she hand-made an Apple monitor and wrapped it with a note that said, “I don’t know which one you want, but let’s get you something nice.”  That cardboard cutout was as close as I’m ever going to get to an Apple [...]
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“Could you explain to the students what you are proposing?”

By david.humphrey | Published: October 20, 2009
Sure, I’d be happy to do just that.  Yesterday I wrote about the new Mozilla course getting underway this week in France, and today Didier (Desiderius on irc in #education and #comete) spoke to me on irc looking for info about the projects his students could do.  When I wrote yesterday, I ended by saying [...]
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New Friends

By david.humphrey | Published: October 19, 2009
Today Mark Surman and I had the pleasure of taking part in the start of the Course on Mozilla education and Technologies @ Evry (CoMeTe for short) in France.  We each gave a talk via video link to the assembled professors, students, and industry partners.  It was very exciting to see all the hard work [...]
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The hardest edge

By david.humphrey | Published: October 18, 2009
From our kitchen window I watched the first Common Merganser arrive to our lake since last spring.  It was the weekend, and I was afforded the time and space to sit and watch.  I did so mostly while tending to various pots and pans in the kitchen.  The watching of this solitary duck gave my [...]
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