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SICSA Conference 2010
I’m just back from presenting a paper and poster at the SICSA Conference 2010. You can find the work that I presented at the conference below, and more information on H2O in general at the project...
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Eclipse Cheat Sheet
I created a cheat sheet for the eclipse IDE which you can find here: eclipse cheat sheet [Google Docs] It’s intended as an accompaniment to a refresher talk I’m giving to the incoming JH class on...
View ArticleHow do you teach Software Quality?
I was recently asked to give a talk on ‘Software Quality’ to our incoming Junior Honours class which made me realise one thing – you can’t teach software quality! For a start, it’s so subjective. The...
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Demo of H2O at SICSA DEMOfest (2nd November)
Next Tuesday (2nd November 2010) we’ll be demoing H2O at the SICSA DEMOfest in Edinburgh. We’ll be debuting our new H2O visualization tool plus the new, occasionally colourful, posters below:
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Current Trends in Distributed Database Systems (Talk)
I recently gave a talk to our Masters Databases class entitled Current Trends in Distributed Database Systems. The talk (available here) covers some of the more innovative designs in database systems...
View ArticleTutorial Notes (on Data Structures and Algorithms)
This year marked the first time I’d tutored on a second year course, Foundations of Computation. Of the topics covered I produced notes and code to help explain lists, search algorithms, and trees....
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CrossRef++ (A Microsoft Word Add-in)
This is a Word 2010 that replaces Word’s in-built ‘add cross-reference’ tool. Why? — because it has annoyed me greatly whilst writing my thesis! Installer (EXE Version). Source code as ZIP, on Github....
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Charting Thesis Progress
Someone told me it’d be a good idea to literally chart the progress I’ve made writing my thesis, so I created a graph showing my word count over time. Exciting, I know! Hopefully the line levelling off...
View ArticleSetting up PGCluster (Guide)
This post is a guide on how to install, configure, and run PGCluster 1.9rc7 (a synchronous replication tool for PostgreSQL), on Centos. It assumes that you are going to be running PGCluster on at least...
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So it goes.
Five years ago I started a PhD, and 56,000 words later I finished. I’ve included every word below, in an unhelpful but concise single page layout — you can read the entire thesis itself here. This blog...
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