Lech Madeyski

A Seminar on Continuous Integration organized by the Software Engineering Department

lech.madeyski — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:03:40 +0000

Marcin Kawalerowicz, the co-author of the book “Continuous Integration in .NET” (http://manning.com/kawalerowicz/), wants to present an overview of the state of the art and recent advances in Continuous Integration and is looking for our advice and ideas to increase his chance of a successful PhD research.

Date: Tuesday May 15, 2012 at 10:00 am

Place: 4.47, B-4, Łukasiewicza 5 street

PhD student positions in Software Engineering in Sweden

lech.madeyski — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:28:22 +0000

A friend of mine is looking for two new PhD (post-graduate) students in Software Engineering in Sweden.

As it should be my recommendation, I am ready to recommend only persons who I know personally.

You can be a student volunteer for the XP2012 agile conference!

lech.madeyski — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:04:41 +0000

Being a PC Member of the XP’2012 I would like to recommend the conference to all of the students interested in Agile methodologies and software development practices.

As a student volunteer you get: free admission to the conference, the opportunity to listen to talks about agile software development, contact to possible future employers (from both research and industry), conference proceedings, food, a T-shirt.

Mobile Applications – Android, iOS, Spring

lech.madeyski — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:46:52 +0000

My students’ startup (PloomWorks) that operates on emerging market of professional mobile solutions for shopping malls and museums is looking for young creative people, who want to learn interesting technologies:
- Android
- iOS
- server-side Spring-based framework etc.
and significantly contribute (internship/employment) in innovative projects (info@ploomworks.com).

A free entrance to the Softdevcon IV conference

lech.madeyski — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:51:09 +0000

I received a free entrance to the Softdevcon IV conference to one of my students. Let me know who is interested in attending the conference.

33rd Degree Conference for Java Masters

lech.madeyski — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:45:20 +0000

I’d like to recommend 33rd Degree Conference to my Software Engineering students. See list of speakers and talks.

Software Engineering Data Science and Scientists?

lech.madeyski — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:09:59 +0000

The movie Moneyball shows the example of how we can look at the data to make better decisions. Baseball is just one area where it can be applied. Software Engineering is another.

I came across the following statements related to “Data Science” topic which (although interdisciplinary in its nature) becomes a buzzword (I believe in Software Engineering too):

“The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians… The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it—that’s going to be a hugely important skill.” (Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist interviewed in the McKinsey Quarterly)

“Data Science is a valuable rebranding of computer science and applied statistics skills” (David Smith)

“Data science is clearly a blend of the hackers’ arts…; statistics and machine learning…; and the expertise in mathematics and the domain of the data for the analysis to be interpretable… It requires creative decisions and open-mindedness in a scientific context.” (Hilary Mason and Chris Wiggins in Taxonomy of Data Science)

“…data scientist: those who use both data and science to create something new.“ (DJ Patil in Building data science teams)

Professor Norman Fenton and Dr Guenther Ruhe joined the Editorial Board of EISEJ

lech.madeyski — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:58:35 +0000

Two renowned researchers joined the Editorial Board of e-Informatica Software Engineering Journal (EISEJ) this week:

1) Professor Norman Fenton

Professor Head, Computer Science RADAR (Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis) Group Computer Science Department Faculty of Informatics and Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London

2) Dr Guenther Ruhe

An Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering at University of Calgary

Founded application focused (Android and SAP Business By Design) PhD theses

lech.madeyski — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:38:10 +0000

I received a request from my colleague (Professor) to recommend two young graduates who are interested in application focused (Android and SAP Business By Design) PhD theses funded for two years by a private sponsor from Switzerland.

As it should be my recommendation, I am ready to recommend only persons who I know personally.

Information for TDD workshop attendee

lech.madeyski — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:39:43 +0000

Welcome TDD workshop attendee!

This Tuesday you are going to participate in a workshop inspired by CodeRetreat format ( http://coderetreat.org/ ).

Before the workshop, please prepare yourself by following those steps:

Read and think about this article: http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/the-four-elements-of-simple-design
Write working implementation of Game of Life ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway’s_Game_of_Life )

a) Your program should allow user to set initial state of a board via graphical user interface
b) User should be able to see subsequent states of a game by pressing “next” button.

Optional: Watch http://agile.dzone.com/videos/pair-programming-show

Our discussion will be based on knowledge you gain by reading the article. By implementing GoL beforehand, you will familiarize yourself with a problem, which will allow us to make best use of our short time available during a workshop.

Best regards,
Grzegorz Dziemidowicz
Nokia