Abundant

Ed. 2016: I never published this post; it's probably incomplete but seeing as I have no recollection of what I'd intended to add, I...

Abundant relies heavily on letting the user specify arguments via unique prefixes, rather than needing to type out the entire string (issue ...

My Thesis included the "release" of Abundant 0.3 , which was somewhat minimal, but usable. In my thesis, I identified several spe...

I've been on about a year hiatus after graduating and moving across the country to Boston, but Abundant has still been on my mind, and i...

At 2:15 the morning of a major presentation, I realize a very small feature is currently missing from Abundant. It is currently not possib...

One of Abundant's major benefits is the freedom it allows developers, not locking them down into any specific workflow or requirements, ...

Today I marked changeset b82b778f2bad as version 0.1 .  At that point, Abundant was largely, but not fully, functional.  Notably the abilit...

Atlassian, one of the biggest developers of proprietary tools for software developers, on DVCS, Mercurial, and version control. DVCS syste...

Be sure to read my new post where I explore prefix lookup algorithm efficiency in more detail. A central principle of Abundant (stemming...

I just came across a little feature/bug in Python I thought worth sharing. In Python, you can set default values for parameters, like so: ...

When running programs from the command line, they are able to take a list of string arguments (the String[] args in Java's main method, ...

I had an interesting time understanding how to use Python's json  library, which is very sparsely documented and completely lacks exampl...

In addition to version control ( which we've got ) and bug tracking, which of course we're making, the third most common tool used w...

One of the fundamental challenges of Abundant is storing bug data.  There are several conflicting challenges that must all be met in order t...

Well, I have done a truly terrible job keeping this blog up to date over the last semester, but I've done a lot of work and finalized wh...

Hello all! This blog is intended to be a place for me to chronicle the work I will be doing over the next school year developing my senior...