turingMachine

This year is the first edition of RelEng: The International Workshop on Release Engineering. Germán presented our paper The Future of Continuous Integration in GNOME. Its full bibliographic entry is:

@inproceedings{dmg2013-relenggit,
  title={The Future of Continuous Integration in GNOME},
  author={Colin Walters and Germán Poo-Caamaño and Daniel M. German},
  booktitle={The International Workshop on Release Engineering, RELENG 2013},
  year={2013},
  month= {May},
  pages = {33--36},
}

Jonathan Wilson is one of the best analysts of the Beautiful Game. He answers an important question: what is the relationship between players and tactics? and then I ask does this have any relevance to software engineering?

Grant Achatz is one of the great chefs of our times. His restaurant Alinea (in Chicago) is considered one of the best in the world.

Today Yujuan presented our paper Will My Patch Make It? And How Fast? Case Study on the Linux Kernel at MSR 2013. Its full bibliographic entry is:

@inproceedings{dmg2013-relenggit,
  title={Will My Patch Make It? And How Fast? Case Study on the Linux Kernel},
  author={Yujuan Jiang and Bram Adams and Daniel M. German},
  booktitle={International Working Conference of Mining Software Repositories, MSR'2013},
  year={2013},
  month= "May",
  pages = "101--110",
}

This year, during MSR Vision 20/20 there was an interesting discussion about providing some type of reward for researchers who share their data with others. We decided to implement a new track–the data track– at the the International Working Conference in Mining Software Repositories this year. I volunteered to be its chair.

The Globe and Mail asks: Why you pay $52 for a $15 wine in a restaurant?. My response to that, why pay for wine at all?

Every few years I decide that it is time to use a new infrastructure to start blogging. This time Leif suggested that I look into Octopres. I like its original tag: A blogging framework for hackers, but its source infrastructure put me off (it uses ruby, of which I am no fan).

The day of the publication of the results of the NSERC Discovery Grants for 2013 is approaching, and I just realized that I didn't publish the ones from 2012, which I did for 2011.

The full list of results can be found here.

They show the bad, but they also show the humane side.

I knew I was never going to be able to get a reservation at elBulli (note the camelCase :). But since Ferran Adrià decided to close it I knew I had a chance to one day eat at the best restaurant in the world.

Looking at the rakings of the best places to eat