Last week, I wrote about using search engine results to collect links to import into Webliographer. I used three search engine features: standard search, standard search with duplicates included, and site-specific search. Each of these features had pros and cons: Standard search returned results from more domains, but with fewer results per domain. Standard search […]
ContinueCPFAQ: Importing Search Results
The purpose of Webliographer is to collect and manage web references (URLs). A good way to get a baseline set of references on a topic is to import the results of a web search. But if you use a search engine this way, you’ll find some quirks that don’t appear when you’re searching interactively.
ContinueCPFAQ: Initial Commit: Webliographer
This week, I made my initial commit to the GitHub repository I’ll be using for my Webliographer project.
ContinueCPFAQ: Building a Webliography Tool
Last week I proposed, as a project for this year, a competitive programming FAQ (CPFAQ). As a first step, I suggested a tool to facilitate research on the Web. This week I’m starting to design that tool.
ContinueA Project for 2018
Happy 2018, everyone. In my end-of-year post for 2017, I wrote a summary of the programming project that I worked on last year, along with lessons learned from the experience. For 2018, I have a new project in mind.
ContinueWhat I Learned Working On Time Tortoise in 2017
On January 4, 2017, I described a programming project that I would work on this year. That project is Time Tortoise, a Windows 10 app for time tracking. In this final post of 2017, I’ll review what I learned this year from the Time Tortoise project.
ContinueTime Tortoise: Future Plans
This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. I’m wrapping up a year of working on my Time Tortoise programming project. […]
ContinueTime Tortoise: Using SystemWrapper for Unit Testing, Part 3
This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. In two previous articles, I wrote about SystemWrapper, a library that makes it […]
ContinueTime Tortoise: Resolving Dependencies, Part 4
This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. Last week, I upgraded the Time Tortoise projects to .NET Standard 2.0, and […]
ContinueTime Tortoise: Using SystemWrapper for Unit Testing, Part 2
This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. With unit testing and code coverage back up and running after my work […]
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