Chris Aldrich wrote several weeks ago about Setting up WordPress for IndieWeb Use. I listened to the audio one weekend during several errands, and I thought it was an excellent overview of basic WordPress plugin support for IndieWeb.
Embedded.com: “You Think Your Software Works? Prove It!” – Describes the use of formal methods with ADA SPARK.
Testing podcasting in WordPress
I created a short podcast (In The Car Episode 1), let’s see what the feed looks like! I am also using the audio post format in WordPress.
Links for February 6, 2018
Rollbar: Top 10 Javascript errors from 1000+ projects and how to avoid them – I am not enough of a Javascript developer to say that I have seen most of these, but the writeups for the problems look very helpful.
Signal v Noise: Stimulus: a modest Javascript framework – my normal response would be “yippee – another Javascript framework! NOT!”, but coming from the creator of Ruby on Rails, it may be worth a look.
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 31, 2018
IEEE Computer: A PDF of “Software Defect Reduction Top 10 List” by Barry Boehm and Victor Basili. Published in January 2001, it still reflects good wisdom on what to watch out for and how reviews can catch many problems before they get too big….
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 27, 2018
Internet Archive: Selected papers of Ted Nelson (1965-77) – good reading! A nice followup to my January 25 post with video of Ted Nelson.
Links for January 26, 2018
Github: Open Guides to Amazon Web Services – An impressive collection of resources for using the many different tools within AWS