PMJ Engineering Log

Background Back in April, we applied Hackystat to the 2008 Google Summer of Code program. We didn't know too much about it, other tha...

Hackystat Version 8 is now in public release. Hackystat is an open source framework for collection, analysis, visualization, interpretatio...

I've been thinking recently about collective intelligence and how it applies to software engineering in general and software metrics in...

I've been thinking lately about social networks, and what kind of social network infrastructure would attract me as a software engineer....

The folks at Agitar , who clearly have a sense of humor in addition to being excellent hackers, have recently produced a plug-in for Eclipse...

Dan Port , who has a real talent for coming up with interesting Hackystat research projects, sent me the following in an email today: Some w...

Developer expertise is generally represented by "years of experience", which is generally useless. Does someone have 10 years of ...

A recent conversation with Lorin Hochstein at ISERN 2007 has led me to wonder if Twitter + Hackystat solves what we found in prior resea...

I came across the Panopticode project today. It is an interesting approach to metrics aggregation. They motivate their approach by listing ...

I just got finished watching a really interesting screencast called "Grid Application in 15 minutes" that features GridGain , a ne...

In the latest issue of Wired Magazine, there is an interesting article in defense of Twitter . One thing he says is that you can't real...

I came across two interesting web pages today that started me thinking about empirical software engineering in general and Hackystat in part...

I decided to get my feet wet with Restlet by building a small little server with the following API: http://localhost:9876/samplerestlet/file...

I spent today working through the XML/Java conversion process for SensorBase resources, and it occurred to me near the end that my struggles...

To my great delight (given that the May 15 milestone is rapidly approaching) I have committed my first bit of SensorBase code today. Some in...

As we transition to Google Project Hosting, one thing we need to be particularly careful about is uploading of third party libraries into SV...

Today I defined my first batch of Xml Schemas for Version 8. The results of my labors are now available at http://hackystat-sensorbase-uh.g...

Lots of progress this week on the design of Version 8. There is a milestone on May 15, just over two weeks away, and I've been fleshing...

Some services (such as a UI service to watch the arrival of sensor data at a SensorBase) want "near real time" communication, usin...

Cedric asked a really good question on the hackystat mailing list today, and I thought it was worth posting to this blog: > Probably my q...