Comments on: Why I’m at U of T http://www.jaysnothere.com/blog/?p=41 And so aren't you Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:22:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Matt Doar http://www.jaysnothere.com/blog/?p=41#comment-38 Matt Doar Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:12:09 +0000 http://www.jaysnothere.com/blog/?p=41#comment-38 Jay, Greg W. reviewed my book "Practical Development Environments" (O'Reilly, 2005) and since then I've been running a one-man consultancy business helping organizations with their software tools - version control, wikis, build tools and systems, bug trackers etc. I've found myself learning lots of new tools to do this, most recently "pylons". I have a certain set of actions that I follow when I do this, but I'm not sure how easy they are to itemize. I know I got much better at it during research for my Ph.D. and it involves a lot of reading very fast! I reckon I've got it down to a few days for most tools. Feel free to email me at mdoar at pobox dot com if you want to dig for more details. Best wishes, ~Matt Jay,

Greg W. reviewed my book “Practical Development Environments” (O’Reilly, 2005) and since then I’ve been running a one-man consultancy business helping organizations with their software tools - version control, wikis, build tools and systems, bug trackers etc.

I’ve found myself learning lots of new tools to do this, most recently “pylons”. I have a certain set of actions that I follow when I do this, but I’m not sure how easy they are to itemize. I know I got much better at it during research for my Ph.D. and it involves a lot of reading very fast! I reckon I’ve got it down to a few days for most tools. Feel free to email me at mdoar at pobox dot com if you want to dig for more details.

Best wishes,

~Matt

]]> By: jrrmzz http://www.jaysnothere.com/blog/?p=41#comment-34 jrrmzz Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:27:58 +0000 http://www.jaysnothere.com/blog/?p=41#comment-34 Thanks, Neil! I wasn't actually aware of those conferences. Can you tell I'm new at this? :) I agree. Coincidentally the research I intend to do focuses on the people and process part of things. I'll definitely take environment into account as well. Thanks! Thanks, Neil! I wasn’t actually aware of those conferences. Can you tell I’m new at this? :)

I agree. Coincidentally the research I intend to do focuses on the people and process part of things. I’ll definitely take environment into account as well.

Thanks!

]]> By: neil http://www.jaysnothere.com/blog/?p=41#comment-33 neil Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:20:01 +0000 http://www.jaysnothere.com/blog/?p=41#comment-33 Hey Jay, you should check out proceedings of ICPC and WCRE for literature; also the work of Peggy Storey, Hausi Mueller, Gail Murphy, etc. (you probably knew this, sorry). I think an interesting extension is beyond 'software' as in code, and out towards 'system' as in people, process, and environment. Hey Jay, you should check out proceedings of ICPC and WCRE for literature; also the work of Peggy Storey, Hausi Mueller, Gail Murphy, etc. (you probably knew this, sorry).

I think an interesting extension is beyond ’software’ as in code, and out towards ’system’ as in people, process, and environment.

]]> By: jrrmzz http://www.jaysnothere.com/blog/?p=41#comment-32 jrrmzz Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:35:35 +0000 http://www.jaysnothere.com/blog/?p=41#comment-32 Good catch! A glyph is just an element of writing. It doesn't extend to diagrams and pictures. I'll update. Thanks! Good catch! A glyph is just an element of writing. It doesn’t extend to diagrams and pictures. I’ll update. Thanks!

]]> By: Jorge http://www.jaysnothere.com/blog/?p=41#comment-31 Jorge Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:33:53 +0000 http://www.jaysnothere.com/blog/?p=41#comment-31 Nice definitions. But are you excluding pictures (screenshots, for instance) in your definition of human-readable documents? Nice definitions. But are you excluding pictures (screenshots, for instance) in your definition of human-readable documents?

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