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Not Yours to Give by Davy Crockett

by Julias Shaw

Lately I’ve been helping out a client with a history project and have been reading a lot of old books. While reading “The Life of Colonel David Crockett” by Edward Ellis I ran across this speech. It’s not appropriate for that site so I thought I would republish it here. (The book was published in [...]

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Build a Better World in One Simple Step

by Julias Shaw

Note that I didn’t say one easy step. Unfortunately the default programming of humans seems to be tribal competitiveness. However I believe there is a cure. A cure that doesn’t cost a dime.
Have you ever noticed how, most of the time, when a person you love and care about says or does something you instantly [...]

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Curing the Curse of Creativity

by Julias Shaw

Learn a few tricks to keep your creativity high and avoid the negativity that can arise when your ideas haven’t yet come to fruition.
Earlier today, my friend @cianna tweeted “Contemplating further revelations about potential negative effects of my constant business & big ideas: Erosion of confidence. Sadness.”
First, an introduction is in order. I’d like you [...]

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I love xkcd too

by Julias Shaw

We Love xkcd

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A Beautiful Visualization of Source Repository Activity

by Julias Shaw

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/

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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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