by Jordi Cabot | Nov 18, 2020 | Programming, Tool
I’m a visual person. I prefer to use graphical tools whenever possible. This also applies to the management of my (humble) code contributions to the research team tools, all of them hosted on GitHub. So far, I’ve been using SourceTree as Git client to...
by Jordi Cabot | Jul 3, 2020 | research, Tool
As part of the 2nd International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE 2020), I gave the keynote “Lessons learned from building a commercial bot development platform” where I discussed some of the key aspects we have learned while building our...
by Jordi Cabot | Feb 18, 2020 | research, Code, Community, Tool
What if your software project loses the best developer? Who is the developer you can get rid of? I bet these are questions that all project managers ask themselves several times during the lifecycle of a software project. Developers are valuable resources for any...
by Jordi Cabot | Sep 6, 2019 | Tool, Community
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...