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Which design patterns should be retired? (In defense of singleton)
Addison-Wesley asked the patterns community (or at least those who were there at the beginning) about their opinion on various issues. This is the second post of what should have been three (though I probably will only get to the first two). For this very specific question, I expect everyone to say: Retire Singleton! I…
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First thoughts on the 20 year anniversary of the design patterns book (a.k.a. GoF book)
Addison Wesley is going to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the Design Patterns a.k.a. Gang-of-Four book. For this, they reached out to the community and asked for contributions. Here are the questions they asked, suggesting we ask (and answer) our own ones as well: I’ll provide my answers to questions 1-4 here and I’ll…
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Call for papers (Verlängerung): Deutsche Software-Engineering-Konferenz SE 2015, Software-Engineering-Ideen-Track
The SE-2015-Konferenz ist die Konferenz der deutschen Software-Engineering-Gemeinde. Teil der SE 2015 ist der Software-Engineering-Ideen-Track, in dem neue und interessante Ideen vorgestellt werden können, die noch nicht als wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse validiert wurden. Wir versprechen uns von der Vorstellung dieser Ideen angeregte Diskussion und erhoffen resp. erwarten eine spätere Validierung. Aufgrund verschiedener Anfragen verlängern wir die…
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Call for papers: The 11th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2015)
Update 2015-01-08: Research paper submission deadline extended by one week! Papers due now on January 17, 2015. The 11th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2015) Co-located with the 2015 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015) Florence, Italy – 16-17 May 2015 http://www.oss2015.org Open frameworks: from service to cloud Free and Open Source…
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Fine-grained change detection in structured text documents [DocEng 2014]
Abstract Detecting and understanding changes between document revisions is an important task. The acquired knowledge can be used to classify the nature of a new document revision or to support a human editor in the review process. While purely textual change detection algorithms offer fine-grained results, they do not understand the syntactic meaning of a…
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The impact of germany’s stop of Uber
A German court ordered Uber to stop offering its taxi services (for now). The argument was as to be expected: Uber taxi drivers and cars are not fit for the job. This is definitely the right decision under the assumption that the German taxi approval rules make sense. Even if the court decision stands, this…