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Bridging Chasms

by Paula Bach on August 18, 2008

I have blogged previously about interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. Now I want to turn to disciplinary chasms in software development. Social aspects such as how people communicate, collaborate, and coordinate interest me because as Andy... more

• Monday, August 18, 2008
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• Paula Bach

CodePlex project developers wanted

by Paula Bach on June 30, 2008

I would like to invite CodePlex developers to participate in research. If you have been reading my blog posts here on Port25, then you will know that I have been investigating how to integrate usability into open source software development. Now I am... more

• Monday, June 30, 2008
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• Paula Bach

Go Hybrid

by Paula Bach on June 09, 2008

I am back in Redmond. For those of you who don’t know, I spent last summer here in the open source software lab conducting research on integrating usability into open source. My last blog talked about how I have made some changes to my research program... more

• Monday, June 09, 2008
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Passing Without Talking

by Paula Bach on February 05, 2008

My last blog was about me traveling to Limerick and Toronto. I have now defended my dissertation proposal and passed. (Yay!) Here is a funny story. A week before the proposal defense I created my presentation and rehearsed it every day until the third day before when I began to get a sore throat. I don’t think it was from rehearsing the presentation or nerves or anything like that. Instead it was just... more

• Tuesday, February 05, 2008
• in: Community
• Paula Bach

Kudos to Open Source Developers

by jcannon on July 03, 2006

We had to buy our own combination padlocks on our lockers in my high school. I used to forget the combination all the time (—I still have nightmares about that). I finally solved this by writing my combination in hex on the back of the lock. (I figured there was only one other kid in my class who would know what 0F was in base-10, so if anything was ever missing, I’d know where to look.)... more

• Monday, July 03, 2006
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