I’ve Launched The Tablet Times…

by Julias Shaw on 2010/02/05

to cover the iPad and other tactile tablets at The Tablet Times. Until I actually get my hands on an iPad the blog will focus on news and opinions. Once the iPad is released you can expect to start reading product reviews, developer insights, and tips and tricks for users.

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Michael Ogawa has created a mesmerizing animated visualization of the activity within source code repositories named code_swarm. This is truly a case of a picture being worth (at least) a thousand words.

Go check it out at http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/

 

A moment from the Eclipse project

A moment from the Eclipse project

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New Metric: C.R.A.P.

by Julias Shaw

The good folks at Agitar have proposed a new metric, C.R.A.P and an Eclipse plugin crap4j for executing it. C.R.A.P. combines a method’s complexity with its coverage to come up with a single number that can help you determine if somebody will say,“Oh crap!” when they have to work with it.

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Teaser: Breaking the Build in Panopticode 0.2

by Julias Shaw

In the last post we learned that Panopticode 0.2 will allow us to create arbitrary reports using a SPARQL SELECT query. Another feature in Panopticode 0.2 is to use a SPARQL ASK query to break the build.

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Teaser: Creating Ad Hoc Reports in Panopticode 0.2

by Julias Shaw

Learn how to create custom reports in Panopticode 0.2 that correlate information between multiple metrics using SPARQL queries.

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New Tool: Complexian

by Julias Shaw

Marty Andrews has just released version 0.12.0 of Complexian. Complexian is a tool for very quickly measuring the NPATH and CCN metrics of Java code.

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Panopticode 0.1 Is Released

by Julias Shaw

Panopticode 0.1 is released. Get it now!

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Metrics Must be Interpreted In Context

by Julias Shaw

James Newkirk points out that measuring code coverage is not very interesting by itself. This is an example of my first fundamental rule of metrics, “Rule #1: Metrics Must Be Interpreted In Context.”

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