Panopticode Blog: Category Tools

A Beautiful Visualization of Source Repository Activity

Julias Shaw — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:07:00 -0700

Michael Ogawa has created a mesmerizing animated visualization of the activity within source code repositories named code_swarm. This is truly a case of a picture being worth (at least) a thousand words.

Go check it out at http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/

Are we finally getting our act together with technology?

Julias Shaw — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:47:00 -0700

This morning I was thinking about the state of the computer industry and I have to say I fell pretty good about the direction many of us are moving in. Agile processes are all the rage in the enterprise, Unix is a mainstream operating system, there is an excellent and very pragmatic Lisp tutorial, and the semantic web is entering the public eye.

This is a great time to be a technology craftsman.

New Tool: Complexian

Julias Shaw — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:55:00 -0800

Marty Andrews has just released version 0.12.0 of Complexian. This version adds the ability to output to plain or XML files.

Complexian is a tool for very quickly measuring NPATH and CCN of Java projects. It will be free for use until the first major release.

Support for executing Complexian is already in Panopticode’s Subversion repository and full support will be in release 0.2.