I read two quite different articles about programming in academia today. I don't know Yossi Kreinin, and when his piece Why bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" appeared on the Hacker News front page, I guessed that I probably wouldn't agree with it. I'm a programmer working in academia who has spent some… Continue reading Undergraduate programming languages
Category: Work
SoundSoftware tutorial at AES 53
I'll be co-presenting the first tutorial session at the Audio Engineering Society 53rd Conference on Semantic Audio, this weekend. (It's the society's 53rd Conference, and it happens to be about semantic audio. It's not their 53rd conference about semantic audio. In fact it's their second: that was also the theme of the AES 42nd Conference… Continue reading SoundSoftware tutorial at AES 53
QM Vamp Plugins in MIREX
During the past 7 years or so, we in the Centre for Digital Music have published quite a few audio analysis methods in the form of Vamp plugins: bits of software that you can download and use yourself with Sonic Visualiser, run on a set of audio recordings with Sonic Annotator, or use with your… Continue reading QM Vamp Plugins in MIREX
Release Week ahead
I've built up quite a pile of almost-released new versions of software, in the lab at C4DM. It's time to get some of it released, and I'm planning to spend the next week or two doing exactly that. This means spending a lot of time getting cross about platform builds not working right (that's where… Continue reading Release Week ahead
The extraordinary success of git(hub)
The previous post, How I developed my git aversion, talked about things that happened in the middle of 2007. That was nearly a year before the launch of github, which launched publicly in April 2008. I know that because I just looked it up. I'm not sure I would have believed it otherwise: git without… Continue reading The extraordinary success of git(hub)
How I developed my git aversion
In the summer of 2007, I switched some of my personal coding projects from the Subversion version control system to git. Git was especially appealing because the network of computers I regularly worked on was quite flat. I did some work on laptops and some on desktops at home and in the office, but for… Continue reading How I developed my git aversion
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