This weekend, I went on a get away with some fellow developers of Devnology. We do this every year, drinking beer, talking about programming, and often also, programming. This year I had even more fun than usual, as Daan van Berkel proposed we build a Turing machine in Excel. In this blog post I’ll talk […]
New Paper: Improving spreadsheet test practices
My first solo paper (without my PhD supervisor) ‘Improving spreadsheet test practices’ will be published at CASCON ’13 in Toronto. This paper explores the idea of applying testing to spreadsheets. Core idea The core observation I did for this paper is the fact that spreadsheet users do exhibit some basic testing. Many spreadsheet creator use formulas […]
The future
Still cannot believe how awesome this looks. Today, I am very proud to announce that I will spend (at least) the next 5 years being an assistant professor at the Software Engineering Research Group in Delft. What will you be working on? I will continue to research spreadsheets. As you might know, my group just got a […]
Trip to Silicon Valley
Two years ago I participated in a trip to Silicon Valley. This trip consisted of pitch training and visits to both start-ups and established companies in the valley. The most useful thing I got out of this trip is that I learned to present myself as an American. I can explain what I do in 20 seconds and […]
Defense
Yesterday I defended my PhD thesis, and the wonderful @grammarware made public notes of all questions that I was asked. Also, I made a Storify with all tweets (also many by @grammarware) [<a href=”//storify.com/Felienne/dr-felienne” target=”_blank”>View the story “Dr. Felienne” on Storify</a>]
