Links

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Links for February 3, 2018

British Library: How to build a medieval manuscript – cool article with insight on the difficulty of creating books by hand

Bohdan Liashenko: How to promote your Github project – good info to know, but seems more like “marketing” to me

Eric Elliott: How one JIRA ticket made $1 million dollars – ideas on metrics to track to make sure that the software development being done has economic value.

First Contributions:  A project to help people get started making contributions to open source software.

Caches to Caches: My Workflow org-agenda – how to use the org application in Emacs for managing your work

Karl Voit: Organize Your Life with Org-Mode – Another person’s testimony to the usefulness of org-mode, I need to check this out..

 

 

Links for February 1, 2018

Remo Jansen: The most important thing about Javascript is accessibility. I think does make it easier for people to get started with the language. One thing that makes it more difficult to me is that Javascript tends to be only one part of designing or developing a web application (necessary but not sufficient ).

Links for January 30, 2018

The MathWorks: A series of 11 videos demonstrating MathWorks tools in a DO-178C process, starting with the requirements process and ending with the verification of the software. This video series covers DO-331 Model-Based Development and Verification, as well as DO-333 Formal Methods.

Links for January, 22, 2018

Pruned: Crypto-water computers – wow, I would never have believed this….

Built in 1936, this machine was “the world’s first computer for solving [partial] differential equations,” which “for half a century has been the only means of calculations of a wide range of problems in mathematical physics.” Absolutely its most amazing aspect is that solving such complex equations meant playing around with a series of interconnected, water-filled glass tubes. You “calculated” with plumbing.

Tips on professional blogging

Andrew Chen recently posted his experiences on ten years of professional blogging. One of his points that I am trying to implement is writing frequency (maintain a regular schedule). I am working to post something everyday to build up the habit of posting. Right now, that mostly consists of links that are interesting to me. Andrew also linked to an older post with 10 tips for starting a professional blog, again there are a number of good points there.