Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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Call for Papers: OSS 2011, the 7th International Conference on Open Source Systems
Conference Theme Over the past decade, the Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon has had a global impact on the way organisations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. OSS has challenged the conventional wisdom of the software engineering and software business communities, has been instrumental for educators and researchers, and has…
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New German edition of Design Patterns (Entwurfsmuster) book (in German)
Seit ein paar Monaten ist die neue Ausgabe des Entwurfsmusterbuchs verfügbar. Dies ist meine Übersetzung des Klassikers “Design Patterns” von Erich Gamma et al. aus dem Amerikanischen. Mit der neuen Ausgabe kommen einige Neuerungen und Änderungen. An erster Stelle zu nennen wäre der neue Umschlag: Der tatsächliche Inhalt der Sprechblase in der endgültigen veröffentlichten Fassung…
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Curating, preserving, and showing software at the Computer History Museum
Last Saturday I visited the Computer History Museum’s new exhibition “R|Evolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing”. The exhibition is fantastic, and they’ve come a long way from the early days of their “visible storage” exhibition. If you live in or visit the Silicon Valley, I highly recommend you pay it a visit. That said,…
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Honoring Peter Naur on the community wall at the Computer History Museum
Last Saturday I visited the “R|Evolution” exhibition at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum (more on that later). One reason why I went there was to see the “community wall” of plaques sponsored by small-time donors. I had sponsored one and my saying on it was: In honor of Peter Naur: To program is to learn.…
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Call for Papers: WikiSym 2011, the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
The 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration October 3-5, 2011 | Mountain View, California The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) is the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies. In 2011, WikiSym celebrates its 7th year of scholarly, technical and community innovation in Mountain View, California at the Microsoft…
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Lessons Learned from Using Design Patterns in Industry Projects [TPLOP Journal]
Abstract: Design patterns help in the creative act of designing, implementing, and documenting software systems. They have become an important part of the vocabulary of experienced software developers. This article reports about the author’s experiences and lessons learned with using and applying design patterns in industry projects. The article not only discusses how using patterns…