User:Rueden
Curtis Rueden | |
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Affiliation | UW-Madison LOCI |
Image.sc Forum | ctrueden |
GitHub | ctrueden |
StackOverflow | 1207769/ctrueden |
Open HUB | ctrueden |
ResearchGate | Curtis_Rueden |
ORCID | 0000-0001-7055-6707 |
arXiv author id | rueden_c_1 |
Google Scholar | VqKfxYcAAAAJ |
pub/curtis-rueden/15/372/52a | |
LOCI profile | curtis-rueden |
Website | https://restlesscoder.net/ |
Curtis Rueden directs the software development efforts of LOCI. He is the principal architect of ImageJ2, and the current maintainer of the Fiji distribution of ImageJ.
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What is Curtis working on?
Primary projects
Here is a summary of my current projects, in priority order. (Last updated: 2020-May-01)
- pom-scijava 29.0.0 release.
- LOCI web server downsizing. Retiring and migrating services.
- Update Fiji distribution to use JBRSDK8 version of Java.
- PyImageJ 1.0.0 bug-fixes + release.
- Reconcile latest ImageJ 1.x version with ImageJ2 patching logic (imagej/ij1-patcher#47)
- JPMS/Jigsaw modularization. (scijava/incubator)
- Document community expectations. Formally define and clarify who is responsible for maintaining which plugins, to what extents (Project developer roles, ctrueden/ctr-scripts:dev-find, fiji/fiji:bin/team-hints.perl)
- ImageJ + Java 8. Complete the migration to Java 8 with a Java-6-compatible stub classpath that checks your Java version and tells you how to upgrade to Java 8 if needed. Retire the Java-8 update site, distributing its contents back onto the ImageJ and Fiji update sites.
- GitHub issue reporting plugin. The Fiji BugZilla and ImageJ Trac are now static content only. The Report a Bug plugin needs to send reports to GitHub instead. (scijava/scijava-plugins-issues-github)
- Rich Image. Improve the ImageJ Common data model to support metadata (e.g., spatial transformations) as a first-class citizen. (imagej/imagej-common@rich, imagej/janelia-hackathon-2016)
- SCIFIO blockization. (scifio/scifio#283)
- ImageJ Launcher. Switch to a JavaFX-based native launcher. Retire the current ImageJ Launcher. (imagej/imagej-launcher#33)
- ImageJ Electron app. Shared memory between Java, JavaScript and Python. (imagej/imagej-electron-app)
I am fully committed to all of the above projects. They are driven by me, making progress only when I directly work on them.
Additional projects
I am also coordinating and/or leading and/or advising and/or helping with, but not sole implementer for, the following additional projects:
- (with Dasong Gao) FLIMJ.
- (with Gabriel Selzer) SciJava Ops (scijava/scijava-ops) and ImageJ Ops.
- (with Edward Evans) New ImageJ web site. (imagej/imagej.github.io)
- (with Ellen Dobson) Coloc 2 algorithms in ImageJ Ops.
- (with Kyle Harrington and Ulrik Günther) ImageJ in 3D. Unification of ImageJ 3D visualization efforts around SciView.
- (with Tobias Pietzsch) Visualization of big data. Unification of visualization in general around the BigDataViewer. (imagej/imagej-common#66)
Constant priorities
Finally, I have the following continuous priorities:
- Mentoring student programmers at LOCI
- Coordinating programming efforts at LOCI
- User support – questions on the Image.sc Forum, bug reports, pull requests, email
- Server maintenance and troubleshooting
- Project management tasks (e.g., managing issues)
On average, I spend ~0-2 hours per day on my primary projects above. The rest is spent on these constant priorities.
Recommended development tools
So you want to be an effective software developer? Use tools!
Tool | Purpose | Plugins | |
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Eclipse | Super powerful
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Vrapper | Vim-fu inside Eclipse – almost as good as the real thing |
Enhanced Class Decompiler | Automatic decompilation when browsing classes in Eclipse | ||
Vim | Great editor. Crazy fast macros | Vundle | Manage your vim plugins like a boss |
vim-sensible | Defaults everyone can agree on | ||
vim-airline | Lean & mean status/tabline that's light as air | ||
vim-fugitive | A Git wrapper so awesome, it should be illegal | ||
vim-repeat | Repeating supported plugin maps with "." | ||
vim-surround | Quoting/parenthesizing made simple | ||
See also my .vimrc | |||
Zsh | Awesome shell – even better than bash | zgen | Lightweight plugin manager |
oh-my-zsh | Your terminal never felt this good before:
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zsh-syntax-highlighting | Syntax highlights commands as you type them | ||
zsh-history-substring-search | Better command history navigation | ||
zsh-completion | Even more and better tab completions | ||
See also my .zshrc | |||
Git | It is worth the pain, I promise | myrepos | Commit, push & pull across repositories en masse |
See also my .gitconfig | |||
GitHub | If you don't have a GitHub account, you don't exist | ||
Maven | Build reusable software components |
See also:
- The Dotfiles setup guide
- Key developer tools on this wiki
- LOCI developer getting started guide