Marwane El Kharbili

Mar 15, 2012

Reviewer Types - 9 to the count, but extensible?

Ever felt frustrated by reviewers dumbly criticizing a paper your peers in the discipline judge as good, treating it like it was the worst piece of text ever even imagined by a creature in the universe? Or perhaps you had the hater reviewer who just destroys all of your paper mentioning all kinds of alien arguments which have nothing to do with the scientific quality of your paper? Or maybe you already had the sniper who just reviews your paper in 2 or 3 lines just mentioning he didn't like the way you asked the research question and thinks your experiment is not one. Well, I found a post summarizing 9 stereotypes of reviewers you will find on your academic path, if you submit often enough. I personally found the post well written and very much enjoyable, as it made me reflect on my own experiences with reviewers, and the funny stories about reviewers virtually every researcher I met has told me about.

http://matt.might.net/articles/peer-fortress/

Aaaaaaaah, if you didn't experience what a PhD is, you haven't really lived :-)

Marwane

Mar 9, 2012

WAT @ CodeMash 2012 by Gary Bernhardt

Talking about facts? Facts, just facts and nothing but facts. In god we trust, for the others, we need data, or as the wise used to say. Then have a look at this awesome video, which I was pointed at by my brother. Just pure geeky coder awesomeness. Short, concise, acid and accurate, just the perfect taste for an argument. I won't say more than that. Oh, and don't mind the jokes, if you don't get them, it takes nothing from the pleasure of watching the video. Enjoy the WAT video. Ruby and JS. Awesome.

A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Marwane.

Jan 22, 2012

Keynote Slides and Videos from EDOC 2011

Hi guys,

I was notified a while ago that the videos and the slides of the three keynotes given at EDOC in September 2011 are online. Honestly, I found the three keynote talks to be awesome, and certainly the best set of keynote talks I attended ever. I got to talk with all three of the keynote guests and I enjoyed the discussions very much. Amon the great community of people I got to know at EDOC, Terry Halpin is certainly to set apart, maybe because I love australian humor and the ORM formalism and notation :-)

Anyways enjoy the links underneath and I am sure you won't have wasted your time! You may even try to recognize me on the videos because I asked questions to every keynote guest, haha, it's me, I am passionate about that stuff as you know.

I very mich hope to be at EDOC in 2012, and I preparing an adequate submission :-)

Peace & Cheers, Marwane.