Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Tag: Evergreen

  • Patterns of effective tweeting and retweeting

    Patterns of effective tweeting and retweeting

    These are patterns and practices of getting the most out of your 140 characters on Twitter. dirkriehle: Examples are in-lined using blockquote like this; the author is named first Table of Contents General Principles Informational Messages Directed Conversations Social Filtering Global Communication

  • Is it “use” or “reuse”?

    Is it “use” or “reuse”?

    In software engineering, it is an old question whether you are “using” a component or whether you are “reusing” it. People tend to use these two terms interchangeably, annoying those among us who are trying to put precise meaning to terms. Alas, I don’t know of a good commonly accepted definition. I only know that…

  • Estimating commit sizes efficiently [OSS 2009]

    Estimating commit sizes efficiently [OSS 2009]

    Authors: Philipp Hofmann, Dirk Riehle Abstract: The quantitative analysis of software projects can provide insights that let us better understand open source and other software development projects. An important variable used in the analysis of software projects is the amount of work being contributed, the commit size. Unfortunately, post-facto, the commit size can only be…

  • There is no “donating code to the community”

    There is no “donating code to the community”

    There, he said it again, at the Open Source Meets Business conference in Nuremberg, Germany: “We would like to donate this code to the community.” Sounds great, doesn’t it? Well, I’m not so sure. Or, to be frank, I think if somebody talks about donating code to the community they probably don’t understand effective open…

  • The dominance of small code contributions

    The dominance of small code contributions

    What is the most common size of code contributions to open source? Maybe 30 lines of source code? 200 lines? Or just one line? What’s your guess?

  • The imperfection of search algorithms

    The imperfection of search algorithms

    This is a professional blog, so I usually leave humorous excursions into my life to my personal blog. Well, unless there is good reason for an exception. Today was such a day. That’s because today to much fanfare a new search service, improbably named CUIL was launched. A friend alerted me to the observation that…