on my papers, conferences and thoughts
Today in the TU Delft EWI Silicon Valley trip, we visit Mozilla in Mountain View where Pascal Finette tells us about the history of Firefox. In 1998 some developers of Netscape convinces higher management to release FireFox as open source. The idea was that they wouldn’t be able to compete with Microsoft anyway. When AOL bought Netscape, Firefox was put into…
And another talk at UIUC about dragging and dropping refactorings by Yun Young. Souds cool! Yun also states that refactoring tools are underused, a typical programmer only knows 8 of them, and this might be due to usability problems. One of the problems is invocation inconsistency: the names for refactorings are not always the same,…
While visiting the university of Illinois, I watched a practice talk by Mohsen Vakilian of his upcoming ECOOP talk on refactorings. We all know refactorings are good. Unfortunately, programmers currently underuse refactoring tools, only 10% of edits that could have been refactored were done by tools (Murphy-Hill et al., ICSE 2009) In his ICSE 2012 paper Mohsen reveled…
Yesterday, TU Delft university newspaper Delta ran a story on how scientists are using Twitter. In the story my defense was featured, as @grammarware tweeted all questions and answers. Click the screenshot for the story or download the pdf.
Today, Microsoft’s TechNet wrote a post on my research and company. Click the screen shot below for a link to the post.
I am part of the organizing team of this year’s IEEE Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM), I cordially invite you to submit recent work and to join in to discuss recent advances in our field. We welcome research as well as tool papers in the areas of program transformation abstract interpretation…
This months’s Bits & Chips (a Dutch magazine on trends in electronics) features on piece on my research. Click the screen shot to go to the article (Dutch).
Still cannot believe how awesome this looks. Today, I am very proud to announce that I will spend (at least) the next 5 years being an assistant professor at the Software Engineering Research Group in Delft. What will you be working on? I will continue to research spreadsheets. As you might know, my group just got a…
Two years ago I participated in a trip to Silicon Valley. This trip consisted of pitch training and visits to both start-ups and established companies in the valley. The most useful thing I got out of this trip is that I learned to present myself as an American. I can explain what I do in 20 seconds and…
After the initial presentation of 45 minutes, two opponents are asking questions: Supervisor Kurt Schneider (KS) and Arie van Deursen (AvD) KS: What would you consider software engineering practice? As you dont distinguish between distributed or colocated. Is there a limitation? Leif : XP, which is a combination of practices, we should look at individual…
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