These days about every adept in software engineering knows what version control (VC) is: A tool to commit changes into remote repositories. It is seen as replacement for some sort of postal system, where the source code is literally sent to a superior or customer.
But there are more aspects to know about it, which I am going to write a about taking Subversion (SVN) as an example. One of it is lowering the barrier of committing code and enabling to maintain flow. Read the rest of this entry »
Today I’ve been asked by a fellow student what languages qKAI is written in. So I launched CLOC and, before presenting you the output, I must give the remark that the actual language usage might change drastically in future. But here is the graph: Read the rest of this entry »
Jan Hein finished his Master thesis at the end of 2008 with the topic: ‘Specification and implementation of information units for qualifying knowledge modelling’ (Thesis in German). Automated extraction of text chunks out of Wikipedia without loosing structure and context is next to semantic annotation the main focus of his work.
The specification of information units can be found here: http://qkai.org/spec/2008/10/
The Wikipedia Extractor prototype is available under http://qkai.org/WikipediaExtractor
One of the most important challenges to face first is leveraging developers’ time for maximum efficiency. At qKAI this is especially due to students, writing their theses, contribute to the code base. Therefore we have established several tools to spare them redundant work, maintain a constant code quality and automate the build.
This time I will write about Maven, Read the rest of this entry »