I tested all intelligent IDEs (2019 edition)

I tested all intelligent IDEs (2019 edition)

Artificial intelligence is going to change the way software is developed. On the research side, we’ve seen many initiatives attempting to bring some of the benefits of AI and Machine Learning in particular to software development. Many of these papers are part...
Five major roadblocks to (usable) open data

Five major roadblocks to (usable) open data

Open data: are we there yet?. This was the title of a personal reflection on the present and future of open data, published in the blog of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. There, I argued that while the number of open data resources keeps growing at a fast...
Rich Club behavior in Open Source

Rich Club behavior in Open Source

The network of collaborations in an open source project can reveal relevant emergent properties that influence its prospects of success. In this work, we analyze open source projects to determine whether they exhibit a rich-club behavior, i.e., a phenomenon where...
5+ great tools to share beautiful code snippets

5+ great tools to share beautiful code snippets

If you write about programming topics (if not, start now, writing makes you a better programmer), you often need to include code snippets in your posts. Let’s review what are the best tools for creating and sharing your own source code snippets online....