by Jordi Cabot | Dec 13, 2019 | Community, research, Tool
Any important decision should be grounded on data. This is also true for any decision that affects your software projects. You shouldn’t reach any conclusion regarding the health of your project or the actions to take to improve it without a good look at the...
by Jordi Cabot | Sep 6, 2019 | Community, Tool
Sustainability of open source is a huge problem, especially in a world where all software depends, one way or the other, on open-source software to run. There are many ways to help and thank open-source maintainers but, IMHO, the only scalable option to make OSS...
by Jordi Cabot | Aug 6, 2019 | AI, Tool
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...
by Jordi Cabot | Jul 15, 2019 | research, Tool
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...
by Jibesh Patra | Mar 20, 2019 | research, Tool
The web runs on JavaScript. In fact, some sources suggest that about 74% of all websites use some form of JavaScript library. The number of libraries for JavaScript applications has increased considerably over the last few years. When multiple JavaScript libraries are...
by Jordi Cabot | Nov 22, 2018 | Code, Tool
I typically use 3 different computers (home, office and travel). A good online IDE (Integrated Development Environment) would be really useful to avoid reinstalling and configuring all the editors and libraries and plugins and … I use in every computer....
