Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2010
Looking for an excuse to try out Google AppEngine, and encouraged by someone on StackOverflow looking for a free web service to convert between currencies at historical dates, I built the Historical currency converter web service. Using a very simple RESTfull API, you can convert between all currencies on the ECB’s list, using exchange rates [...]
Posted in Research on Jan 7th, 2010
Yesterday on StackOverflow, I came across one of those users that kept asking questions, but didn’t really seem to understand much of the responses. Looking at his profile, it turned out he had asked over a hundred questions, but contributed less than ten answers. I won’t be tempted to start about his capabilities of actually [...]
Posted in Research on Nov 8th, 2009
I’ve been wondering what the diversity of knowledge of StackOverflow users would be like. It seemed like an interesting research idea to see how many people have responded only to questions in a very narrow field, and how many others have broader knowledge and can contribute useful answers in more diverse fields. Apparently, there is [...]