• Quick Guide to Posting on the Blog via NeCTAR

    This is just a quick guide of the steps I take to post on the blog using a NeCTAR virtual machine

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  • Why do Digital Humanities Projects often use Open Source Software Tools?

    In The Magic Cauldron, Raymond uses rational choice theory to demonstrate why a business might find greater value in preferring open – rather than closed – source software implementations. These arguments for free open source software (FOSS) are built from Raymond's previous discussion in The Cathedral and the Bazaar regarding how FOSS ideologies create an effective environment for software development. Many of the points raised by Raymond directly relate to why a researcher might prefer FOSS to solve domain problems in digital humanities projects.

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  • This is David demonstrating github commits

    Brian and David demoing a github commit from a remote machine

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  • Welcome to Jekyll!

    This is my first foray into the world of Jekyll so I will be documenting my progress here. It seems scary at first, but as you get into it it really isn't as terrifying as it seems, I promise!

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  • Setting up Nectar Cloud with X forwarding over SSH

    The government spent a ton of money on NeCTAR and we get two free machines through the university, so lets set one up.

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  • How the internet talks

    Well, the mostly young and mostly male users of Reddit, anyway

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