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Problems with Pandoc 13 Jun 2013 | 11:48 pm
People have been asking me to write the Software Carpentry instructor’s guide in Markdown instead of HTML, mostly so that it will be easier for other people to review and contribute. I was initially a...
Keynoting at SPLASH 2013 13 Jun 2013 | 05:21 pm
I will be giving a keynote talk at SPLASH (formerly OOPSLA) in Indianapolis on Wednesday, October 30. Hope to see you there!
Heroes 10 Jun 2013 | 02:06 am
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke These men chose to do something. If anyone deserves to be called heroes, they do. Edward Snowden Bradley Manning
Is There Only Room for One Utopia? 7 Jun 2013 | 10:49 pm
The title of Samuel Moyn’s The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History is misleading. It isn’t really a history of human rights; instead, it’s an outline of how human rights rose to prominence as a defin...
If Anything, They Overestimate My Javascript 9 May 2013 | 01:50 am
From my open source report card: More seriously, there’s a whole lotta unhealthy spin goin’ on when “open source” means “what you did on GitHub”.
Merging is the Real Revolution 1 May 2013 | 06:06 pm
Many people at Mozilla think that Javascript and HTML5 are the future of the web. Respectfully, I think they’re both red herrings: I think what makes Mozilla and other successful open source projects ...
Cameron Neylon Speaking in Toronto on May 1, 2013 19 Apr 2013 | 10:23 pm
Network Enabled Scholarship — Reconfiguring Research for the Web Dr. Cameron Neylon Director of Open Access Advocacy, Public Library of Science 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Room 205, Bissell Buil...
That’s My Secret, Captain… 28 Mar 2013 | 06:36 pm
…I’m always proud:
A Software Carpentry Boot Camp for Women in Science and Engineering 28 Feb 2013 | 09:57 pm
Software Carpentry is pleased to announced a two-day software skills boot camp for women in science and engineering, to be held in Boston this June. We’re currently trying to raise the $6000 needed to...
Congratulations to Christian Muise 16 Feb 2013 | 04:11 am
U of Toronto PhD student Christian Muise created an application that was selected as a winner of Google’s Places API Challenge. The competition brought together 87 developers from 27 countries, challe...
